I eat hills for breakfast

Some people who are much more experienced than me said it was the hardest course they’d ever run. I believe it. It was hard. I ran 17km of the full 42km course, it took me 4 hours and 20 minutes. It was hard. I’m actually not convinced that it was only 17km. The ipod (which can’t be very accurate over that kind of terrain) measured 20.55. My average pace over the whole race? 12 minutes and 11 seconds per kilometre, which should give you an idea of the kind of terrain. I wanted to run longer so it was officially a half but if I’d gone on it would have had to have been to 26k over a couple more hills before I could get down again and that just wasn’t going to happen.
Big shout out to the guys I ran round with! It would have been a lot harder without you there.

Even bigger shout out to the guys who organised the event. It was a huge success and those of us who ran all or part of it now have a much better understanding of how much effort you put in.

This is the graph that the nike+ and ipod recorded but it lacks scale. Fastest speed was about 6 min/k and the slowest was about 24 min/k.

And the best bit? I now have a t-shirt that says ‘I eat hills for breakfast’.