Join me in honouring the memory of AlisonM in the Southampton Half Marathon

[Grannylorraine]

Well done and congratulations on raising so much money.

 

[Northerner]

Here's an update on how the day went 🙂 As you can see from the Libre graph, my levels shot up to 12.9 before the run started, probably due to stress/adrenalin), and higher for a while into it, before falling back down in the second half. I had a gel at around two hours, when the Libre showed me at 7.4, but despite that I was down to 4.6 within half an hour 😱 What is most remarkable is the totally flat line between bedtime and lunchtime today 😱 I wish the course had been that flat! 🙂


I had quite a big breakfast this morning, but it hardly registered on my BG levels, even had a couple of mild hypos, as you can see!

My ambitions of running under two hours went out of the window within the first couple of miles - too many people in my way (should have started from the front, I guess 😉). The Sun took its cue from the starting gun to begin beating down and pouring on the heat, and I was starting to suffer around 7 miles in. As you can see from the split times below, my pace really suffered from that point on


Still, it was a big improvement on the last time I ran this (about 8 minutes quicker) 🙂 Also, when I put my details into the an age grade calculator it tells me that this is equivalent to a 25 year old man running 1:52:10 - I keep forgetting that I'm not as young as I used to be! 🙂

It was an emotional day, particularly when people saw the name on my tshirt and shouted out 'remember who you are running for!'

Once again, thank you to everyone who supported me, and for all who donated so generously 🙂

 

[Barb]

Fantastic result and a great tribute to Alison.

 

[trophywench]

I was getting a tad concerned we hadn't heard from you again since LOL

Brill result.