I have been steadily improving my times at the Inverness Half over the last few years so I was pleased to continue that trend at the weekend with a 1:41.55 – even though I was hoping to break 1:40 for the first time in a long time! I felt pretty wrecked at the finish having managed to run sub-8 minute miles for all but two of the 13.2 miles. That was some achievement for me and shows that my training is starting to pay off.
That’s good news because on Friday I received confirmation that my team has been accepted for the Highland Cross again this year – so the half marathon is now just a stepping stone on the way to that much bigger challenge. Last year I ended up walking a bit of the last five or six miles of the ‘foot’ section so my aim this year is to keep running to the transition and see where that takes me!
I had family up at the weekend looking after the kids while I ran – and my wife Meg ran the 5k, the first race she’s done since we were married in 2009! I can’t believe it’s been that long as we actually met at a 10k race so running has always been a big part of our lives. She ran a fantastic 25 minutes and just maybe caught the running bug again!
My time saw me finish 419th out of 1703 finishers – see the full results here: http://www.invernesshalfmarathon.co.uk/result/36/2014-half-marathon-results/
Here’s a snippet of video my dad took as I shuffled my way to the finish line: