Race Date: Sunday 4th August 2024
Race Report by Hannah Wright

Note to self… attending Abbeydale Rd beer festival the evening before a half marathon is not the best idea. 

I awoke not so bright and rather hungover early Sunday morning ready for the days race. Tentatively ate breakfast with the hope it would stay down and had cuppa tea with paracetamol. Being a Sunday morning the drive was quiet to Nottingham Racecourse. 

I arrived on hour before the 9:30 am start. Plenty of time to get ready and pop to the toilet (at this point remembered that spicy food was also not a good idea the night before). 

As usual RunThrough events have a pre race warm up which helped to get the legs working and initiate the beer sweats. After the warm up there was a short walk onto the race course to the start line. Before I knew it we were off. 

The half marathon is a 4 lapped course around the racecourse and its outskirts. Water station available for each lap. The route was clearly marshaled. 

Near the end of lap 3 a familiar face Karen Clark came speeding past me. Karen was an her final lap and not far from the finish. 

On lap 4 I realised that the distance markers were not entirely accurate and that the total distance was going to be more than 13.1 miles (approx 13.7). Not what I wanted as I was now sweating margarita. 

But somehow I managed to drag myself over the finish line. I then swiftly headed to find food in the shape of a chicken gyros to finally get rid of the hangover. 

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