Sunday 24 July 2011

Cross Bay Challenge

Today I did the Cross Bay Challenge- the half Marathon across Morecambe bay. I can't recommend it enough. Unique environment, lively running surfaces which vary a lot, wading through channels etc. Awesome!

I felt pretty good for the run. I was a little over an hour at the 7 mile point, so sub 2 hours was on. At 12 miles I was at 1:48 so it was still on. I tried to push it, the surfaces got more wet but thenthe finish was there. And I was very pleased to get it done in 1:59:30!!!

So what next? Hmmmm, maybe a longer distance?........
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8 comments:

  1. rginns24 July 2011 at 22:26

    Nice one, chub! sub 2hrs too! And you wonder why your knees are fucked...

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  2. GCW25 July 2011 at 08:32

    The official Chip time of 2:00:38 was a little disappointing, seems a bit out from my stopwatch?!?!

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  3. rginns25 July 2011 at 09:31

    I doubt they're that the microchip is more accurate than the watch on your wrist IMHO

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  4. GCW25 July 2011 at 10:40

    When I did the manchester 10k, the stopwatch was 1 second out. I was at the back of the pack so I wonder if the start time was when the gun went off?
    I'd trust the stopwatch more TBH.

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  5. GCW25 July 2011 at 12:40

    Just had it confirmed- the chip time includes the time it takes to get to the start line from the offset, so I DID do it in under 2 hours! YYFY!!

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  6. rginns26 July 2011 at 08:10

    Good work!!

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  7. Nik Jennings26 July 2011 at 21:56

    Nice one G, now stop fucking your kness with this running stuff and get back to crush factor 11.

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  8. GCW26 July 2011 at 23:14

    Oops, just entered the 2012 Manchester Marathon!!!

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