I had decided to do my LSR on Saturday this week because I was going to a birthday party that evening and didn't want to run the next morning feeling worse for wear. On Friday afternoon BBC Radio Sussex called me up to ask if I would go in the next morning (at 7am!) to give my opinion on the newly published Brighton Marathon route. I was to be joined on the show by one of the race organisers, Tim Hutchings.
I had also decided to include parkrun as part of my 15 miles and was going to run off from the radio, do 12 miles ending at Hove Park and then do parkrun.

The radio bit went well, I voiced my concerns about a section of the course I thought mght be a bit of a problem and also got a plug in for my VFFs (which I have sent to Vibram, along with a request for some size 44's!). Then off I went along the coast. It was cloudy and a bit breezy which was fine by me, and then when I looped back and headed towards Hove Park I realised I would have to speed up a little if I was to get there in time.
I ran the last 3 miles of the 12 pretty fast but still got to parkrun after everyone had started. Luckily the pr organiser let me go anyway  so off I went playing catchup!  Despite having to dance around a broken bottle, I managed to overtake 79 others to finish with a gun time of 27:31. I had looked at the official stopwatch as I set off and it read 6:51 as I started running so my "chip time" was 20:40, which is more than 2 minutes faster than my previous shod pb! Unfortunately it wont count because I was late!

I'm slightly annoyed.

I seem to be developing a chest infection in the last 2 days so I really need to get well before the Sussex Beacon half marathon on the 21st.

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