Today will be my last run before the brass monkey half marathon on Sunday. I'd hoped to have done the distance prior to the brass monkey this time round, but for one reason or another I've had a couple of breaks in my training that mean I am a little behind where I wanted to be. That said I have never been consistently running 7+ miles at the pace I want before doing a half marathon before so maybe that is a good sign. I tried to run a flatter route today so that it was a little more like what I'll face on Sunday and was quite pleased to have run out of time, rather than energy, after 8 miles. Unfortunately I had a GPS fail today so only have vague timing which probably aren't very accurate. Total distance was 8.18 miles (mapped after the event due to GPS fail) in roughly 1 hour 23 minutes (ish, give or take!). 

Swimming tomorrow morning to loosen the legs of then a quick spin on the bike on Saturday before the Brass Monkey on Sunday sums up my next few days. The a bit time doing short recovery runs before getting the set for Edinburgh. The Silverstone Half Marathon in March and Leeds Half Marathon in May should be nothing more than training runs as I should be running further than that before then. 

I almost slipped up on Tuesday by nearly entering the Liverpool Marathon. We'll see how the next month goes and see if I'm going to do my first 2, and possibly last 2 if I have any sense, marathons in 1 year.