Connemara International Half Marathon - Run

Starting out slow, stayed with crew for first mile, myself and Mary then speeded up and ran together until Mile 4. Didn't have a watch and got told at that stage it was 45 mins in, decided I felt good enough to up the pace and left Mary, ran very steady good pace, legs went dead for about half a mile around mile 7, but recovered well. Ran all the way, apart from about a minute on steepest section of hill around mile 10. Think I ran my fastest mile between mile 11 and 12(big mistake), hit the wall at mile 12 though and spent the last mile fighting with myself to keep going. Collasped over the line, legs went ot jelly, in bits!! Glad though that I gave every little bit that I had.

Train! Longest run was just over 6 miles a month and half ago. No proper running since then apart from a few Gaa training sessions.
Take more gels, took one at mile 9 and thought it helped a lot, another 2(miles 7 and 11) I think would ahve helped a lot.

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Tough on the organisers as Peacocks Hotel at the finish closed down 3 months ago and left them in a quandary, thought they did ok with army tents, but a tough race to organise.