Turns out what you need to run well is relax. Who knew? Apart from absolutely everyone, that is? A half marathon PB for me - but over to you guys for your weekend exploits ...
OK runners. Time to place your pre-orders now for my forthcoming coaching manual: how to run a half marathon PB. An exclusive peak at the contents involves top tips such as running a full marathon one week before, sharing a bed the night before with an eight year old nervous girl-octopus with twitchy legs, and wearing new shoes. But enough of the #humblebrag - all these reasons are, actually, precisely why I did run a half marathon PB. Because I took the pressure off myself and just ran. No looking at my watch (not until mile 12, anyway) and no worries about feeling that I ought to do well. Just run.
And there we go - 1 hour 26 minutes (and some seconds which is is ever runner’s right to ignore) later and at least, a new PB at Cambridge half. A more or less flat, fast course, with a great field, and very well organised apart from their inexplicable failure to turn down the wind and turn off the rain. Tsk, guys, work on that one. Then again, it does always seem to be windy in Cambridge - a fact my dad puts down to there being “no hills between here and the Urals”.
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