Leicestershire Half Marathon Report by Tom Brooks

As a companion piece to Stuart Jones’ excellent report, Tom kindly has provided this mile by mile break down of the race:

Pre-start
Optimism. Nobody knows where the start is – confusion. Nowhere to warm up so I do laps of a small grass bank – frustration.
Mile 1
Chatty
Mile 2
Grey
Mile 3
Is this literally it for the whole race
Mile 4
Bored
Mile 5
Fed up. Oh look we’re not on an airfield any more
Mile 6
Nearly half way. Stuart went past and said “no more hills” hmm
Mile 7
Tired
Mile 8
Be over please
Mile 9
Oh look it’s the airfield again, completely with obnoxious territorial lorry driver school
Mile 10
WIND OH MY GOD
Mile 11
More wind. What the actual.
Mile 12
Headwind from all directions now
Mile 13
WHO PUT ******* GRAVEL HERE
Post finish
I’m never doing this again.
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