Bravo!

Bravo! by leecolgate at Garmin Connect - Details

Another glorious morning.  Summer is hanging around a bit  this year, which is very lovely.  Especially when it's bright and warm, but breezy, like it is today.

Today's run was a nice 30-minuter, something I have got very used to over the past few months.  I've really started to see some improvements in the last 2 to 3 weeks, though, and this has continued today.  I'm really pleased with how it went and nerves are beginning to transform into excitement about race day.

I set the target pace to 8:30 to 8:45 per mile.  I managed to hit this during the outward half without too much struggle, despite my achilles not feeling brilliant to begin with.  And on the back half, I was even faster and almost broke the 8:30 barrier!  That would be the pace I would need to maintain throughout the full half marathon to get a personal best.  At the moment, this is still realistically out of reach, but I was not  overly tired at the end of the session and I'm really confident now that I will at least crack the 2-hours I've set myself as my minimum achievement.

Most gratifying, and the rest of the day promises similar satisfactoriness if I can, as I plan deliver some completed work for one of my projects.  Things are looking up!

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