HUHM a day early

[Kalessin]

By kind permission of our wonderful team of organisers, I ran/walked the HUHM a day early, leaving the house about 5:45 on Saturday morning. I was keen to avoid footpaths as much as possible as we have had a lot of rain and everything is very wet/muddy/slippery, so most of my planned route was on little back roads with a footpath cut-through at the halfway point, which made sure my feet were wet but was also very pretty. It was rather chilly and grey all day, which was a bit discouraging.

I knew I was going to be slow, as my running speed has never really recovered after Covid a year ago (and it was pretty darn slow before). My legs felt as though I was running up a slight incline for most of the route although I'm pretty sure that a lot of it is quite flat. I didn't manage to find the RunGo commentary before i left, but I was buoyed up by the excellent Spotify playlist. I'm still humming "Come on Eileen" 36 hours later! And at about 17km I developed back pain which hurt when I ran but not when I walked, so my runs got shorter and shorter.

Still, one advantage of being slow is you really don't feel too bad afterwards. I had a lovely soak in the bath and I only really noticed i was still feeling a bit tired this morning when I had to jog while pushing my husband in his wheelchair along the Ipswich waterfront... but that's another story.

Thank you so much to you all for the inspiration and motivation.

[AlMorr Half Marathon]

Congratulations Kaiessin on completing the HU half marathon 🏃🏾 👍 well done, you should be very proud of yourself ✅

[Runnin-g Half Marathon]

Well done, lovely photo even though it was a great day 👏🏽

[RunBrianRun Half Marathon]

Running with wet feet is definitely no fun especially early on in such a long run too. Well done on that HUHM 👏👏👏

[Stephen_UK Half Marathon]

Well done, Kalessin!

[SueAppleRun 10 Miles]

Perfect, just perfect, I'm loving reading all of these posts, it's great to be part of and reading your report made me smile

[Dexy5 10 Miles]

Oh what a beautiful view on your run today Kalessin, and well done on you HU VHM . Yes the grey skies do keep the temperatures down but once running you are quite grateful. Glad you liked “come on Eileen “ - that was my choice.

[Cantstopmenow Half Marathon]

Well done on completing your HM and such an early start too. Your photo is lovely, despite the weather. 😃

[Bluebirdrunner]

Super run and report Kalessin, really well done!🏃‍♀️👌xxx

[Week7 Half Marathon]

Brilliant run. You should be so proud. Who doesn't live a good soggy foot run!

[cheekychipmunks Half Marathon]

What a lovely run Kalessin! Probably better for it to be a bit grey than too sunny for a HM I suppose. 🙏🏻

Well done, that was fabulous. 👏👏

[Cowladyrunning Marathon]

Congratulations for completing your half - that's a lovely photo.

[00marks Marathon]

Well done!

[Irishprincess Administrator Half Marathon]

What a beautiful photo 😍 Well done for the run 👏

[linda9389 Administrator Marathon]

What a forgeous photo! A huge well done to you. That's a long time on your feet, especially with backpain (I do hope that's feeling better now).

[Kalessin Half Marathon]

Thank you everyone for the congratulations and the likes which made me feel more like I'd achieved something! My back is absolutely fine, as long as I don't try running 17km again any time soon....