Hastings Marathon (100th Anniversary)

[steepler]

Hello all.
Firstly, well done to anyone who ran on Sunday. It was a very tough course indeed and the weather didn't exactly help!
I set off very slowly as I had a cold in the prceeding week and was not 100% I was going to toe the line until Sunday morning.
I saw Steve and Fiona at around 1 mile and told them to slow it down a bit. Obviously Fiona didn't! Steve did well to run off limited training. You're not through with the 'thon yet mate!
Feeling very cold I ran the long climb out of Hastings on to the ridge. Felt weird running the wrong way along it after years of doing the half. The route through Battle was beautiful to run along. Who needs the tower of London? Wasn't keen on the dogleg in Bexhill but they had to get the distance in to get the course accurate. Loved the run back along the sea front but I was very cold by then. I was never passed from 18 miles out and actually caught a lot of people who had gone off way too fast and blew up on Galley Hill. Evil place to have a hill! The run in was special. Fantastic event and a real honour to be part of it as a sponsor. Hats off to Fiona for a very solid run. Surely a 2.50 is on the cards at London?