Race Report, Huntly Half Marathon

 



On Sunday, took to the start line for the Huntly half marathon. Conditions were brisk to say the least and a thick fog covered the land and river. The race started as most do, with everyone bunched really tight together. running slightly faster than I should've to avoid a gridlock, I settled into a pace of 4.20 per km. The run was on! Being passed by the sub 90 minute pacer was a bit lame, but I thought with having done a hard run the previous week, Waihi that I would take it easy and run some 4.30's. This didn't happen very well either. By the half way mark I was averaging around 4.20's. Doing quick maths in my head while running 4.15's, I figured if I increase to 4.10's I might have a chance of going sub 90 minutes. With around 8 km to go, I saw the balloon of the 90 minute pacer around 500 metres in the distance. Was time to chase that balloon. So I did and I caught it. Was thrilling, especially when I passed the 19 km mark and my watch said 1 hour 21 minutes, I was like, right this is it. Was an amazing race, I think perhaps I did too much maths on it? Ran a negative and achieved sub-90. Here is the classic early and end race pics, I hope you can tell which is which.

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