Forest of Dean Half Marathon
15th March 2009

It was a very well organised race, lots of marshalls and whilst it's all on forest cycle tracks (apart from a bit at the start in the village of Parkend) there was a reasonable amount of support as well, on what was described as an undulating course. It was that, and then some. At a couple of places we were zig-zagging up the side of hills because they were too steep for a straight road up. I knew I was going to struggle a bit because I'd done my weekly 20 mile run on the Friday (don't like to miss out on running the stupid distances) but it was a great atmosphere and in spite of the hills, a nice course. I was pleased with my time and achieved a top 50 finish which meant I got a special finisher's t-shirt (outside of the top 50 you had to buy your own but they were very well priced and technical too). I was waving my t-shirt at my brother as he finished, which for him, only compounded the mikey-taking me and my other brother achieved the previous day (see attached photo).

Stuart

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