Fleet Half Marathon

After the blister issues at Milton Keynes and the subsequent time it appeared to be taking for these problems to clear up, I was not looking too good to run Fleet last weekend. The feet had not totally healed but the Compeed plasters did seem to be make running at least bearable to some extent, albeit, I had not tried anything longer than 10k during the two weeks.

So, on Sunday I decided to give it a go and just see if I could make it round in one piece. I set the Garmin off on a pace of 1:23 but I decided that I would see how long I could go without actually looking at the watch. I thought I was going okay, but it was quite obviously far from a stellar performance. I am not really sure what is happening with the running at the moment. Perhaps, it is too long on the treadmill and not enough sessions outside, but I just feel that good running at the moment. Anyway, at about mile 8, the feet started to hurt, what with one Compeed coming off and one on the other foot somewhere else within my shoe. I eventually stopped at about 9 miles and decided to take the socks off and see if I could carry on. For a while the feet were still sore, but things did improve....I ran quite hard through miles 10-11 and then the legs felt pretty sore for the last mile

I eventually came home in 1:27 so not as bad as MK but it does mean that the whole plan of doing some good halves in the early part of the season are kind of out of the window as there are no more on the horizon. TT season kicks off this weekend with a trip to the Sotonia 10.