So I did it, completely injured, completely stupid! I should know better. I limped around the course with my injured hip flexor in a disappointing time of 2 hours and 16 mins, my slowest half marathon to date. If one of my Sports therapy clients came to me with the same injury and wanted to do a half marathon, I would advise them to not do it, so why did I? Mainly because Im stubborn. I had a plan that if I was struggling with the hip flexor I could stop at 3 miles and 10 miles where my cheerleading supporters were based, however, at 3 miles it didn’t feel so bad and at 10 miles, I thought there’s only 3 miles left, I might as well carry on. Great plan, hey! Hopefully Ive learnt my lesson, I’m off for a sports massage.

If you wanted a race review, here goes, really well organised, marshals were great and throughly enjoyed the route even thought theres a monster hill back up to the stadium. Definitely doing this one again next year.