Canberra Half Marathon report

Canberra Half Marathon Sunday 19 May
Results for current speedygeese and recent speedygeese
28 SARAH-JAYNE MILLER 1:29:31 W Open 6th
36 MICHELLE WELLS 1:30:36 W40 2nd
46 KATIE FORESTIER 1:32:35 W45 **first**
70 HELEN LARMOUR 1:38:05 W50 2nd
76 CRAIG DAVIS 1:38:32 M40 13th
88 GEOFF MOORE 1:39:46 M65 2nd
112 LUCIA PIETROPAOLI 1:43:27 W Open 17th
134 EMMA PADOVAN 1:45:21 W Open 22nd
138 WARRICK HOWIESON 1:46:11 M40 19th
281 CAROLINE CAMPBELL 2:05:12 W70 **first**
289 RUTH BAUSSMANN 2:05:47 W60 5th
328 MARILYN BANFIELD 2:12:50 W60 8th
340 MARGARET MCSPADDEN 2:17:52 W65 **first**
372 finishers

Having helped Sarah prepare for this race it was awesome to see her achieve her goals. A sub 90 minute half marathon was even faster than expected, but that is often the way when you focus on one race. Well done Sarah! And her sixth place outright in the women's division means she only just missed out on one of the major prizes, which went to the top five in both men's and women's. All in all a brilliant effort and a five minute PB to boot

Katie, Caroline and Margaret won their age groups, what an achievement!

I hoped to set off at 95 minute pace but it was never to be. Hoping for 5k splits of 22:30 they were 23:00, 23:10, 23:40 and 24:10. The hills in the second half were particularly troublesome. But the good news for me is -

• injury - I seem to be going reasonably well now. No sore feet for the first time for a couple of years in such a run, everything else tolerably OK
• illness - that seems to have cleared up about six days ago after three months of headaches and heavy colds
• fitness - I think I can start working on that this week!

Thank you for the kind words from those who told me it was a great run. Perhaps I should point out I ran exactly the same time through 21.1k in the 50k 13 months ago! So I am seriously thinking a sub 90 is possible if everything hangs together through winter. I will certainly be aiming for it.

Let's get out and train for it together!