Race report: 2013 The Highway 10k

Ran this today in a lot of heat (high 20s in Celsius, low 80s in Farenheit). Did OK -- my chip time (42:07) placed me 8th out of 111 overall and 3rd out of 28 in the Mv40 category. Charlie and Maggie both finished the 2k fun run. Maggie didn't enjoy it much but Charlie did, and his surprisingly fast 9:24 pace far exceeded his record for the mile (10:10) in our training runs.

Then we came home and saw Andy Murray win Wimbledon!

Signed up for London!

Seven seconds short of 3.15 at North Dorset was indeed good enough: my 'good for age' entry was accepted, I just paid the £35 fee so I'm officially signed up for the 2014 London Marathon. On my entry form I estimated my completion time as 3:08. Considering I've got nine months to train for it, that doesn't seem so unrealistic. Maybe I should aim for about 3.12 at Abingdon in about 3.5 months?

I've also signed up for a couple of shorter races that I'll run between now and the October Abingdon marathon. One is the Highway 10k, in Orpington, Kent, which I'll run this Sunday 7 July. It has a 2k fun run that Charlie will do as well. The other is the Burnham Beeches half marathon, on 18 August. It's a local race that looks excellent but somehow I hadn't heard of it until a few weeks ago. I'm doing it instead of the Wycombe half, which I'd signed up for but now can't do because I'll be in Miami for a conference.