Belvoir Half Marathon - 3rd April 2011

This was at the end of a recovery week so felt pretty fresh but only wanted to treat as B or even C priority race as would be back in training the next day.

Breakfast
Had two Peanut Butter bagels which seems to work well.

Course and Conditions
It is a pretty flat route with a few undulating parts but nothing major and it was actually really warm for they time of year.

Result
Ended up with 1:26:43 (Average = 6:35/mile), was 40 seconds of a pb which considering i was not pushing as hard as perhaps i could of was a good result and one that i was pleased with.

Was 43rd out of 589 overall so was in top 10% which i was happy with.

Mile splits were as follows:

6:23
6:22
6:27
6:25
6:30
6:29
6:37
6:31
6:43
6:44
7:05
7:06
6:25
5:18 For remainder


miles 9,10,11 and 12 were where it was harder and i did not want to push it as needed to think of the bigger picture

Had 3 torq gels but had slight stomach ache from those so think will stick to SIS gels

Overall a good and enjoyable race with a medal at the end of it.

Positives
- Running coming on strong
- Good solid time considering not an A priority race
- went on 42 mile bike day before so good endurance

Negatives
- Torq gels which had worked in training did not work as well as SIS
- Started to doubt myself in some parts of race - need to work on a more positive attitude


Now on to Base 2....