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Robin Hood Half Mara - well I found this really tough!! Glad I did it, at long last, and a stonking medal to boot, but I found this pretty hard going. I have a few theories as to why 1) I did think the corse was pretty undulating, defo harder than Dingle more hills and steeper! 2) There really wasn't much to look at. Recently I've doing lovely coastal runs or hills or forests and this city road running malarke just wasn't asthetically and therefore mentally pleasing at all! 3) I wasn't actually sposed to be doing it and therefore hadn't psyched myself up for it but big thanks to Lucy and Denz and 4) I am now convinced there is something wrong with the alignment of my right leg! Knee is swollen and was hard to bend, felt like I was dragging it along. Right foot gets pins and needles and my heel and middle toe really hurt during running (keep blaming my laces but I loosened the right one at Dingle twice and another 3 times today. I'll have no more lace left to tie if I loosen it any more. Left trainer still on origional tightness and there are no probs there!?!?). Plus I get this pain in my right glute, back and hamstring which shoots around. Anyway, spent first 4 miles with Rich and Denz and after pulling away briefly a couple of times by mile 5 I just couldn't keep with them anymore Then I stopped to fiddle with right lace and they were really gone. Pottered round on my own but as I said, wasn't particularly overwhelmed with the scenery and found it hard to do anything else other than analyse all the different pains and aches I was feeling in my right leg. By mile 10 I was walk/running. Breathing was fine and so was left leg but my right just didn't want to function properly. Finished with a smile although obviously a little disappointed that I didn't look at my watch and push myself more in the last mile to get that sub2. Easy to say in hindsight!! Great medal and lovely to see Denz and Lucy.