Dover Half-Marathon

For some reason, I entered two half-marathons in a week. Next week is the Brighton Half-Marathon, but last Sunday was the Dover Half-Marathon.

Normally, my race preparations consist of lots of pasta the day before, lots of sleep the night before and lots of porridge on the morning of the race. Unfortunately, as we were staying in a hotel in Dover, I had none of those things for the Dover Half-Marathon. Also, due to a problem with my running shoes (they were in Chichester, not Dover), I had to run in my emergency squash shoes.

So, all in all, I was quite pleased to finish in 1 hour, 32 minutes. I felt quite tired even before the race and my feet were extremely sore for most of the second half of the race.

As Brighton's closer to home, I should be able to remember to take my running shoes so I'd like to run under 1 hour, 30 minutes. That would be nice, but then I might start to tell myself that I can run the London Marathon in under 3 hours....which I suspect might be a bit optimistic....