I had my second half-marathon race this morning. Last week's race was very hilly; this week was pretty much flat but on roughish ground, and my official time for today was 1:50:03.
The race was a pretty hard one; the first 10km was run into a head wind and I had a little muscle pain to deal with, undoubtedly a bit of a hangover from last week. A couple of km after we turned around, that nice tail wind dropped off. Sod it. For most of the race I was keeping an eye on my pace thinking I was doing terribly but I was bitten once again by my complete inability to perform basic mathematics while running and I was actually going a bit quicker than I thought. The event was sponsored by a winery and most of the running was through vineyards with quite a bit of that going down between the grape vines. Most of them had been harvested already so I didn't do any sampling. As a bonus everyone was given a bottle of wine after finishing. That's pretty good considering they had about 1700 entrants. I just entered for another half marathon in my home town in early June. For only $15 I could have super-sized to a full marathon but I'm not quite ready for that :) We're staying in Hanmer Springs tonight so tomorrow I'm going to try and take a couple of decent photos from my favourite part of last week's course. Cheers, Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
