Bramley 20

Done it! Cracked 20 miles. Ran the Bramley 20 in rather cold conditions in something like 2:35:45. Meet a couple of guys from the 3:30 thread at the race and ran most of it with them. Stirling job by GeoffM in setting a good pace and all credit to Sawyer how had just arrived back from a skiing trip.

Details are below, but the Garmin and the course measurement didn't quite agree (and I know the course measurement is more accurate than GPS, so there is a runt of 0.12 miles. I'm trying to think what to say about the race. It was certainly well organised, well marshalled and great provisions with water and isotonic drinks.

Strangely I can't remember much of the race, apart from seeing a broken television lying by the side of the road and a hill that got a lot longer and steeper the 2nd time around. The last 4 miles are a little undulating and this took it out of me as my mile times increased for them. By mile 19 I was mentally done in. I had spent the last 8 miles counting down to the end but there was just something about that last mile that nearly got me to stop running. Perhaps it was becasue I was beginning to pass a steady stream of other runners that were walking and something was saying "Its OK to walk". I did manage however to conjure up a sprint finish from somewhere which was good fun.

Mile	Time	HR
1	7:43
2	7:44	148
3	7:28
4	7:31	156
5	7:36
6	7:47	160
7	7:37
8	7:35	161
9	7:46
10	7:42
11	7:44
12	7:57	159
13	7:45
14	7:39	159
15	7:53
16	8:07	161
17	7:55
18	7:55	162
19	7:50
20	7:39
Runt	0:41	167
Total	2:35:45	159