Today is the day of the Portsmouth Coastal Half-Marathon. This is a multi-terrain race. Rode from mine to the Rock Gardens on Southsea seafront to pick up race number and chip and proceeded to the start which was opposite the Royal Beach hotel on the promenade. The race started at 9.45am and I would estimate there were over 1000 others racing along with me! Conditions were extremely windy and muddy, especially along the foreshores between Eastney (back of the caravan park) and the Eastern Road. I train regularly along Southsea Seafront on my bike and by foot and can honestly say this is windiest race I’ve ever competed in (apart from the half Ironman in 2013). However, I kept up with it and managed to complete the race in 2 hours (not my personal best but very good considering the bad conditions). If you would like to check the results for this my race number was 883. Total mileage completed (15 miles), race was 13.2 miles.
Day 54
23 Sunday Feb 2014
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