12th April The half half marathon


Okay lets cut straight to the end. It should have been a half marathon but turned out to be half of a half marathon. Eager to hear more?

Today was the Thoresby Hall Wild Deer event with a variety of different jollies on offer depending on how far you fancied running and whether you wanted to run with a canine companion or not. And lots did. 

So with options available from 3 miles to 13 miles (with or without dog) I plumped for the half marathon distance with vague recollections that several years ago I had managed the 10 mile Leaf Kicker event.

To be honest there wasn't as many people there as I had hoped for and with so many options available, even though the 6 mile and 13 mile runs set off at the same time, it was obvious at the start line that the field would get stretched out pretty quickly. 

It was also obvious within the first mile that I wasn't really there mentally or pgysically and despite the nature of the course being lovely, the fact that the half marathon consisted of 2 laps of the 6 mile run, it gave the option to bail out half way round.

And with the temperature rising steadily and my legs feelign as if I had borrowed them from Bambi I didnt need a lot of persuasion to call it quites after a singe lap. Could I have gone round again, probably. Would I have enjoyed it, probably not. 

Sometimes less is more

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