{"id":16103,"date":"2014-04-21T06:15:13","date_gmt":"2014-04-21T05:15:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/?p=16103"},"modified":"2014-09-14T06:05:35","modified_gmt":"2014-09-14T05:05:35","slug":"new-half-marathon-pb","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alananna.co.uk\/blog\/2014\/04\/new-half-marathon-pb\/","title":{"rendered":"A New Half Marathon PB"},"content":{"rendered":"

Whilst away for the weekend at Steve and Biddy’s Wedding<\/a> I at far too much – Well, one measure of a good celebration should be calories consumed thanks to beer, food and cakes, and if it is, then this was a good celebration!<\/p>\n

I therefore wanted to make sure I got my\u00a0scheduled Sunday\u00a0morning run in so got up at 5am and went for a run from the B&B we were staying in. I had scoped out the area and had seen a few hills that I wanted to head towards in order to do 8x 3 minute hill reps on them. However, after weaving my way through the lanes of rural Shropshire I never quite managed to find the hills so instead decided to simply continue on and do a long steady run. The idea of a half marathon distance run started creeping into my head. I’ve only ever run half marathon\u00a0distance once before<\/a>, so I kept the intensity low and the pace steady. I was feeling OK though, despite the over-indulgences of the day before and actually managed to finish off quite strongly.<\/p>\n

My final half marathon time without really putting in any effort was 1:35:51 which\u00a0isn’t too bad consider how easy it felt and was a new personal record for the distance. I even managed to get a Strava Segment Course Record on the Condover\u00a0Industrial Estate Climb, although I thought that the run was pretty flat myself!<\/p>\n