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@HatBeard
last nights tempo was grim as fuck.
was wearing my marathon kit so was slevless, grey skies meant it took the first mile of the run to even get a gps lock then the entire journey from moorgate to morden was directly into a headwind which garmin's weather report says was 22mph SSW. every time I stopped for traffic or kamikaze peds the wind seemed to die down for a second only to gust the second I got going again making it harder to get back on pace.
in the end I ran most of the miles too fast as it was impossible to settle into a pace with the wind pushing at me constantly so I tended to power into it to keep the speed up only to end up a minute faster than pace.
finished up after 14 miles feeling pretty much drained with new pb's in 400m, 1km, 15km, 10mi and 2nd fastest half marathon. knee's are understandably a bit sore today.