Lovely to see my long term friend Karen who lives in Nantwich and ex customer. We like to catch up a few times a year with a trip “Up North” and then the summer Karen come an run my local hosted race. Back onto the Helsby Half race, driving up on the Saturday took 2.5 hrs and a week of poor sleep I didn’t know what to expect. A lovely evening spent watching TV and chilling out knowing I would be up to race in the morning. With a 40 minute drive Karen offered to drive which takes the stress away, however between the two of us took a fair it of time to work out how the “downloaded route on the tablet”. Finally we arrived shivering, cold, and to add to the weather windy and rain, this was going to be an interesting race… Great to catch up with a regular racer Ben Fish and also the locals like Gemma C who had been running well the past few weeks. The race was hilly and very exposed but something I was determined to run mainly as a strong half,
Great to catch up with a regular racer Ben Fish and also the locals like Gemma C who had been running well the past few weeks. The race was hilly and very exposed but something I was determined to run mainly as a strong half, however my heart wasn’t in it from the start. Normally a fair bit quicker than Gemma just suffered with a stitch and being able to dig in. Trying to remind myself what it had taken to get there, run etc , this pushed me to continue despite being knocked about in the race with the weather and still struggling to feel better. I managed to stay in position and still finish in a respectable 80:58. Slow for me, but reflecting back on the course not bad from heavy miles.
The race was hilly and very exposed but something I was determined to run mainly as a strong half, however my heart wasn’t in it from the start. Normally a fair bit quicker than Gemma just suffered with a stitch and being able to dig in. Trying to remind myself what it had taken to get there, run etc , this pushed me to continue despite being knocked about in the race with the weather and still struggling to feel better. I managed to stay in position and still finish in a respectable 80:58. Slow for me, but reflecting back on the course not bad from heavy miles.
