At the end of March I was offered someone's place in Reading Half marathon. So on April 1st I lined up with about 15000 others to run around Reading. Have run this half the last 2 years and have always enjoyed it as a race. Its a nice course -couple of hills but nothing dramatic and plenty of support. After the success of Wokingham I was up for a sub-1:40 time but didn't quite make that and ran a respectable but slightly disappointing 1:41:30-ish. Mistake was lining up a bit to far back at the start and spending too much time being held up by in the first 3 miles. This makes it quite hard to get into a rhythmn so once the road has cleared its hard to start running your intended pace. Enjoyed it again though and will probably be back next year :-)
On marathon note, Andy and I went to see the London Marathon on Sunday. As usual the Elite were amazing as they calmly sprinted by followed later by the rest; some having a ball and some not quite so much! Does make me want to run it again though so on Monday I shall be noting my name in the ballot along with 120000 others.
Very sad to hear later on Sunday about Claire Squires but simply amazing the amount of money that has been raised in her memory.
The last thing to mention is I have finally started my swim training for the triathlon. The good news is I have found I CAN swim a mile - hurrah. The bad news is that the mile is in open water and I have only swum in a pool so far. The WORST news is that I managed to miss the first open water coached session of the season so now I'll be catching up on swimming in my wet suit and the joy that is apparently swimming in a group of people. Although it may not be a problem as seemingly mum has banned me from swimming in the Thames anyway!!
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