Manchester Half Marathon!!
Today was the day! The half marathon that I had been training for, for the last few months! The event is just superb!! An easy tram to get close to the start, And then a flat course with loads of support the whole way round!! Just fabulous!! I was wearing my Vegan Runners t-shirt and got just heaps of support personally the whole way!! Loved the whole event, and the Manchester Evening News (a newspaper) even has a picture of me running!! Picture number 20 out of 45, so not exactly famous, but funny!! My idea before the race was that I should be somewhere between 1:50:00 and 1:55:00. Not exactly quick, but decent enough! However I didn't mind if it was over 2 hours - the main goal was simply to finish!! But on the day, with the good weather, and good training and feeling fine, I thought I should be under 1:50:00 - maybe even close to 1:45:00. It wasn't to be - my official time was 1:52:34 which is bang on what I ex...