Before I get too many messages I know that I have had two day 36’s but that was because I missed out a day 31 previously.

So today Sarah and I had to do the 9 mile run on my half marathon program (as we did not run it yesterday).

When we set out the plan was to try and complete it as close to 1 hour 21 mins as possible. This would mean that we were running around the 9 min mile pace, one that we need to keep up if we are to break the two hour mark.

We were close to keeping to that pace as after 4 miles we were only about 1 minute down on what we needed to be. The next 2 miles got really progressively harder until the last mile when it took us nearly 12 mins to complete.

Our final time for the 9 miles (the last mile was all up a steep hill too) was 1 hour 27 mins 24 seconds.

I thought that it was a pretty good effort but Sarah was a little disappointed as she feels that the sub two hour marathon will be too fast for here to achieve, I still have some faith that it is possible.

I felt really good at the end of my run and went off to a friends house to play table tennis for a couple of hours.

Tomorrow should be a endurance circuit day but I may well take it as a rest depending on how my legs are feeling.

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