Reading Half marathon 1:59:54

Nearly undercooked it as I was 1 minute ahead of time but slowed just outside the stadium to get people to run past me and crack 2 hours so I had to do a bit of a dash for the line to come in at 1:59:54 which was about 9 seconds more than I had hoped.

9 seconds over a half marathon is not a lot but I know I can do this now practically to within 3-5 seconds of my target time of 1:59:45 so next year will come into the stadium so I can see the finish line with say 1:30 to go then it will be a stress free finish.

Next pace job the Reading Royal 10 km - so looking forward to my first 10 km as a pacer.

  

The pacing season has started

And so for the first time this year the half marathon human metronomes were out at Fleet Half marathon. I ran the 2:00:00 pace slot and came in at 1:59:11 officially, which if I am being critical, was about 30 seconds too quick, Having not run the course before I guess that's acceptable. Now on the Reading half next week,