Sunday 20th - Half Marathon PB!

AM - Blackmores Half Marathon.
70:35, 21.1km.

3:22, 3:19, 3:10, 3:06, 3:14, 3:14, 3:13, 3:22, 3:31, 3:15, 3:20, 3:30, 3:15, 3:15, 3:26, 3:32, 3:23, 3:17, 3:18, 3:17, 3:31.

AM 2
Went to the pool for a brief recovery session of 1600m to help the legs recover quickly.

Pretty warm today. 6:20 start was early for a race so again not too much sleep. Wanting to run 72 minutes I was so happy and surprised to run a PB for the half today. Ive had absolutely no taper and its been months of build up - so go figure. There were still plenty of times however that I felt dead during the run and was on the edge of dropping down a few gears a few times as I struggled with some fatigue. The most pleasing thing was the pb though which came unexpectedly. It wasn't until the last 200m that I actually took more notice of my watch and thought - I can do this. I was pretty stuffed at the end but recovered quickly and started walking before the swim