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Great Eastern Half Marathon.

Excellent race, good course and great value for money.

Stuck to my plan of keeping it just sub 7's until 10 miles and then aimed to pick it up from there.

Felt comfortably on the edge if that makes sense and apart from a slight wobble at 10-11 miles (I think it was against the wind, or slightly up gradient, or both), where breathing felt a bit too laboured, at no point did I think "I can't do it, I'm in trouble". Recovered after 11m and pushed on.

Barely tired when finished, very bizarre feeling.

Went through 10m in something like 1.09.3x - so my 10M pb needs definite revision!

Interesting stats from the results page -

Finished in 287th place (Gun), 2974 finished behind me.
Finished 27th woman (gun), 1136 finished behind me.
Finished 11th (F30-34 cat), 180 finished behind me.

Opposite sex - I was faster than 88% of male finishers (ha).

Half way split mat - 45.34 for first half, 44.53 for second half.

I passed 52 runners in the second half, 6 passed me.

I was at apx 9m when the race was won.

I love stats

Weight ref - 8st 0lb.

Split Summary

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1) - 1m - 6:58(6:58/m) - 95cal

2) - 1m - 6:58(6:58/m) - 96cal

3) - 1m - 6:56(6:56/m) - 97cal

4) - 1m - 6:57(6:57/m) - 97cal

5) - 1m - 6:57(6:57/m) - 96cal

6) - 1m - 6:58(6:58/m) - 96cal

7) - 1m - 6:58(6:58/m) - 96cal

8) - 1m - 6:56(6:56/m) - 97cal

9) - 1m - 6:55(6:55/m) - 96cal

10) - 1m - 6:58(6:58/m) - 97cal

11) - 1m - 6:58(6:58/m) - 96cal

12) - 1m - 6:51(6:51/m) - 96cal

13) - 1m - 6:36(6:36/m) - 96cal

14) - 0.08m - 22(5:22/m) - 8cal

Pace Zone Summary

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Pace Zone: 5:20-5:39/mile: 1.2%

Pace Zone: 5:40-5:59/mile: 2.1%

Pace Zone: 6:00-6:19/mile: 4.6%

Pace Zone: 6:20-6:39/mile: 13.5%

Pace Zone: 6:40-6:59/mile: 34.5%

Pace Zone: 7:00-7:19/mile: 26.2%

Pace Zone: 7:20-7:39/mile: 11.2%

Pace Zone: 7:40-7:59/mile: 3%

Pace Zone: 8:00-8:19/mile: 1.8%