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you'll be just fine
its the greatest sport in the world
and a super fantastic venue,
just run jog with fellow runners at your pace , don't even try and push it , and you'll come out on top
hope we can meet
you'll love my phil
all the best
then we'll have won our own race
phil and i will look for 1.47 , we'll see
I'm still quite stiff! Should be alright for tommorow.
Good luck with tomorrow - Silverstone was the very fist half mara I ran two years ago and I loved it, great atmosphere and freindly runners to chat with along the way, you'll be fine.
Hope the pulled muscle in the arse clears up soon. Will say hello if I see you.
If the weather is like this tomorrow, it should be nice - at least the sun is shining...
excellant inspiration to many runners who see you in the races, have a good un
cheers
Daz H
hey - just popping in from the Flora Liverpool Half crowd to wish all at London Half a good race tomorrow.
nicky...
poor arse cheeks ah,
never mind
it ul be alwight on the night
& TARA
thanks for you kind support,
but i truely mean what i say
what we do is only possible because
OF ALL YOU FELLOW RUNNERS
not every race goes right for us
though i don't say much,
the fact that i'm surrounded by all of you , pulls us through
Also saw Mick and Phil at about 6 miles - well done in awe of your achievements
I have been injured - but overall pleased , just need to get the endurance up a bit.
A bit disappointed a kid in Bart Simpson socks passed me and beat me!!!What that all about.
The big one's coming up... Still debating on pace... Goal sub-4, do I aim for 3:45... Or just sub 3:50... Will decide nearer the time.
Mick and Phil - I passed you at some point and as I said ``I couldn't do it." A very well done lads.
Darren: http://micknphil-marathonlads.co.uk/, pretty impressive!!
I liked the music - S club gave me a good boost at about mile 8! Crawled home in around 2.50 (forgot to stop my watch until I was picking up my stuff), which is way slower than my target 12min miling but I finished that's the main thing!!!
Am wearing the medal to work tomorrow!
23 still a kid?good to know!
In the rush to get there any socks will do man!
as for beating you..don't worry son...pleased with my 1hr 31 on the clock but no doubt chip time a minute quicker as started a long way back.
pb of 1hr 28m 42 but that was in my "halycon" days as a mere 22 year old!
all in all a great run..my first where i've had to drivw over 100 miles ina roundtrip..so pleased i lasted!
Came in at 1:20.30 which is my second fastest time ever and only a minute outside my best set 5 years ago so have to be pleased, although in hindsight I wish I pushed a little more between miles seven and eleven: if I had a PB would surely have followed.
But I was mindful that this is a marathon training race, so didn't want to go flat out. I will have to leave the half marathon PB assault until later in the year where I can run until I drop and not care about running for a week or two afterwards!
Just one (very minor) criticism: mile marker 6 was some way short of a mile (The painted mile 6 on the tarmac was a good 45 seconds further up the road). This left me and a bemused runner beside me going from doing a 5:35 mile to 7:10 for mile 7 which at the time was a little disoncerting!
Well done the organizers on a very efficient exercise in hosting a race.
Only gripe was the car parking - I lost my car!! Parking officials insisted there were only three car parks open - none of which held my vehicle...
After half an hour trudging round getting frostbite in the fingers, the same race official decided that actually, yes, there WAS another car park open (the coach park) - I just needed to climb a fence and walk half a mile or so (in the opposite direction to the first way he had sent me)
Other than being colder than a snowman's whatsits by the time I got to my car, a good day!
On second thoughts, perhaps it just wasn't there!? Bummer!