Owls Count

On Sunday I ran the Bracknell Half Marathon. I had, early in the year, made plans to attempt to run a PB at this race. In the last few weeks I decided that I was not in the best of shape and shelved the plans for a future day. I did not think much to the course – it seemed that we visited every underpass in Bracknell. The race goody bag was good for the cost of the race.

From the start I went off at an easy pace, accompanied by R. The first five miles were completed in 40 minutes, at an even pace. We then slowed, and ran the next five miles in 43 minutes, though this section of the race included most of the uphill sections and parts of it were into the wind and rain.

At the ten mile point R went on ahead, finishing in exactly 1:45. I took it more easily and finished in 1:51:14.