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@HatBeard
you're doing well Greenbank.
my advice is don't hold the HM distance in reverence (or the marathon distance for that matter) they're just fancy names for 13 and 26 and a bit miles, if you keep running and don't injure yourself 13 miles before or after work is perfectly doable, I went from not being able to do 5k after not running for 3 years (and longest run back then only being 12 miles when i ran loops of greenwich park one bored sunday to see if i could) to doing at least 2 13+ mile runs a week in my marathon training within about 3 months (most of the first 2 months of which was building up to 10km distance still).
it's still a feat certainly as not many people put in the effort to train to be able to run that far but 13 miles isn't a magical number, if you don't fall apart at 10 miles you can pretty much schlep through a few more miles with strength of will or 90 more if you're an ultra runner.
(n.b. i'm not saying half-marathon big whoop, i can do that here btw, I'm saying don't build it up in your head and it'll be a lot easier to achieve, then of course once you've ran it by all means then lord it over everyone)