Out with my Blackpool peers

On a bitterly cold April morning 437 runners faced a strong northerly wind last Sunday to complete the  Blackpool marathon which YJ had selected as the first step in his quest to go sub four during 2016.

The speedwork  provided by the parkrun series certainly paid off with times of 3.58.33 (gun) and 3.57.53 (chip) and splits for the two halves of 1.56.36  and 2.01.27  and an average pace of 9 min.5 secs per mile for the full distance.

A successful day, perhaps, except I was beaten in to 2nd place in the  over 65 category by the same 76 year old who beat me at Snowdon last October. So, having achieved the sub  four target so early in the year  the obvious challenge is to close the gap on D. Gardner before the end of the year.  I may need some help.