Reading Half Marathon Race Report

[Hobbitfan]

Another lovely run at the Reading Half Marathon. My training got derailed by my asthma so I put aside my goal of beating last year's time in favour of simply completing the run and enjoying myself. My asthma did decide to rear it's ugly head resulting in taking my inhaler a few times and there are a couple of evil hills so I decided to walk those. The supporters were brilliant and, of course, I love the bling! So far I've managed to raise £175 for Cancer Research UK, the charity I was running for so that makes it very worthwhile! Timed it right with the weather too as it poured with rain just after we got in the car! Official time was 3:15:01 which might be slow, but I'm happy just to have been able to run it as I wasn't sure my asthma would allow me to (two weeks prior to this I couldn't even run 3 miles because of it).

[Beachcomber66 Administrator Half Marathon]

Well done Hobbitfan; as a fellow asthma sufferer I empathise. Mine is pretty well controlled by inhalers at present, but you never know what allergens or viruses are about!

That is a goodly amount of money to raise too, for a very important cause. HM completed, medal brought home, funds raised; job done 🙂. It is good to get the first HM of the year out of the way; the next one should be easier.🙂

[Sandraj39 Half Marathon]

Congratulations on completing your HM and to not being beaten by your asthma👏👏 Funds raised for a fab charity too, so well done!🙂🏅

[linda9389 Administrator Marathon]

I'm loving that fierce medal! You fought hard for that - great job, well done 👏👏👏

[RiceAndPeas Marathon]

What a fantastic comeback from asthma, many congratulations on finishing your HM. I love hearing about difficulties become overcome like this. Well done for raising money for such a good cause too. Avoiding a soaking was a real bonus too. 👏👏👏

[00marks Marathon]

Congratulations on completing the HM!

[Irishprincess Administrator Half Marathon]

What great looking bling!! Well done on all fronts, the run and raising funds too 👏

[over61andstilltrying Half Marathon]

Well done to you! Wow HM when 2 weeks ago you couldn't manage 3 miles. Yikes! What a recovery and describing it as a lovely run sounds so good. 🏁🏅🏃‍♀️👏🏻💥🎉😊

[Lavender1962 Half Marathon]

Congratulations on your half marathon! Well done.👏👏

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