Well I raced this morning, despite ending up with about six weeks of reduced mileage as a result of feeling rough and the side effects of some medication that the doctor put me on.

My objective had been a 1:50 completion, but after the reduced training that became completion, and ideally sub 2:15.

I got 2:07 in the end, so reasonably comfortable with the outcome. I need to work on fuelling strategy, I certainly felt the benefit of fuelling while I was out, but faded a bit towards the end. Also the last two miles were pretty much all tarmac, so I've wound up with a niggling pain in my knee, trail shoes were needed for all the forestry and farmland, but weren't the right thing at the end.

Lessons to take away from that, and the potential to do the full 26.2 event this time next year.