Run > Race

Milton Keynes Half Marathon. As a practice session for New York this was useful. Fairly flat course. I've now found a way of successfully carrying 6 gels and my phone safely. I was able to take on drinks and gels ok as well. The plan was to run at a pace of 8.30, (which would be more than fast enough to get me round a full marathon sub 3.45) and see how much energy I had left. The answer was not much energy left, but then there were a few mitigating circumstances. Firstly, I have still have 15 weeks training to go! So plenty of time to get fitter. Preparation wasn't that good in that I played cricket on Thursday which pushed my 5 mile run back a day. I also played cricket on Saturday and bowled two stints for a total of 11 overs. My hip was still a bit stiff when I started race. Also, a 2 hour drive to a race is not best preparation. I'm also not confident about garmin times. It kept losing sattellite signal (Rich's didn't) and it says race was 13.39 miles. I can't imagine organisers are nearly 0.3 out with distance. If I multiply average pace up it doesn't add up to time on stopwatch so something is wrong somewhere. It also kept losing current pace display so I had difficulty doing even pace running and was having to rely on times at mile markers - which isn't ideal. I also don't believe some of the Lap times it was giving me. I can't have been that inconsistent. Still a good workout though.