Worthing 20

5am, 6am…. I didn’t have a clue what the time was when I got up, all I knew is that I had to ignore the fuzz in my head thanks to the 5 pints the previous day watching England destroy wales whilst the other England limply lost to Sri Lanka, and drag myself out of the door for the drive to Worthing for the 9am start / 8am start on the know where you are winter time clock.

It was abit like Sidcup 10 by the sea, 4 laps of West Worthing wasn’t the most inspiring of courses, coupled with quite a stiff breeze and lots of people to lap it certainly wasn’t an easy run. But you have to hold your hats out to the marshals who gave up their Sunday to stand infront of roundabout junctions etc, blocking cars until the last straggler has gone by for the 4th time!

London is scarily close now so not wanting to burn all my matches before the big race I took the first 5 mile lap easy in 7mm, and then ran each lap abit faster. The 10 mile split was 1:07 with the 2nd in 1:04 to finish in 2:11 and 18th place,  I even got to practice my marathon finish pose (touch wood!!). At the end I waited for Steve Winfield to finish, he looked like he’d put a hard day in at the office as he crossed the line in 2:39, and was rightly chuffed to bits with his sub 2:40 effort, we even got to meet Jonathan Redman who it turns out was only just ahead of Steve.