Half marathon

This morning Dave and I ran in the Sussex Beacon Half Marathon in Brighton. When we first got into the car at 8am, the temperature was minus 4 centigrade and we weren't particularly looking forward to freezing running conditions. The sun was out though and by the time we reached Brighton the temperature was just nudging above freezing.

We parked in the Marina, them trudged down to the start in perfect time - arriving about ten minutes before the start. The race was well organised, but a little uninspiring - there was a two mile loop around the city centre, followed by three miles along the seafront towards Hove,then doubled back on ourselves running about five/six miles against the wind back past the pier up to the Marina, then back again to the finish near the pier. It was hard to run an even pace as there was a big difference between running with a tail-wind or a head-wind.

Dave and I were respectively trying to run sub-105 minutes and sub-90 minutes; we both ran significantly faster than our goals, so it was a cheerful journey home.

Run stats: 87:33 minutes, 13.1 miles - 6:41 minutes per mile