My race information for the Great North Run was in the post yesterday, apparently there are going to be fifty four thousand other runners. I don’t think I have ever seen that many people in the same place before!
So now I have a race number and a starting zone and this is where I think I have made a bit of a mistake. The starting zone is based on the time you estimate to be able to finish the half marathon in. When I signed up for this gig I hadn’t run at all and wasn’t very sure of my abilities and if I remember correctly I put down about two and a half hours.
After having now managed a two hour half marathon, I think I can knock forty minutes off that guestimate. However my conservative time has put me in a zone somewhere near the back. The zones are alphabetical (and have a colour associated with them) from A to K with yellow zone A for the fastest professional runners at the front and K for the slowest runners at the back… I am in green zone I. I’m not too hopeful on being surrounded by my running peers all the way back there and I think I will be held up by the press of other people running at a slower speed.
I think my chances of besting my 2:01:32 time for the Ironbridge half is going to be scuppered by my zone allocation, but maybe I can get my green race number up amongst the white race numbers by the end.
It now dawns on me how close the event is though. Four weeks!
Actually, thinking about it, the Great North Swim is before the Run. I wonder when the Swim info is going to turn up…
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