Did it! And even some extra 3 hours 45 mins – 28km. I was slow, I walked a bit. But did it.
And really pushed towards the end. The last 5k were a killer but I ran pretty much all of it.
This felt like a good one mentally, as it is 2/3 of a marathon and as it was an out and back, I could visualise how much would be left to take me to marathon distance. Despite that, I was so dead by the end of this I couldn’t imagine Running that extra.
Superb, so pleased. It’s always mentally tough when you finish a long run like this, feel exhausted and think, how can I do the extra 14km. Well, race day is completely different, having the other runners around you and the support of the crowd you’ll use less energy in that first 28km as you’ll be pulled a long and even if you need to do lots of walking in that final third that’s ok. This suggest you can get to that finish line and do so in a decent time. So you should take an awful lot of confidence from this one, great work Lucy.
Coach Simon 🍊
