Inquisition by Menton

Well Bramley in Hampshire but lets not have accuracy getting in the way of a good headline.  The times aren't out but I know I cracked 3 hours for the 20 miles and that was a target which provided plenty of motivation on the second lap which promised a lot of pain but which thankfully a couple of stitches apart never really arrived.

For once everyone at the start seemed to get into their right time groups and as a consequence it was possible from 50 metres into the run to get into a regular training run stride pattern without having to constantly chop and change to get past people who were either to fast and trying to get through the crowds or too slow and coming back through the field.

All around I was fortunate enough to fall in with runners who were running a few seconds faster a mile than I and that helped the time and although I expected to suffer in the last few miles, the run last Sunday seemed to give me plenty of confidence that there was going to be no collapse towards the end.

That is though the last long run and now it's the taper with the 20K at Bangay next weekend the next target.  So from here on in it's avoiding injury, cracked and uneven pavements and people coughing and sneezing at work and on the Underground.  Strange but sometimes the running isn't the trickiest part of the training.