Thought I’d tell you my running story so far. ive never done any endurance sport before. Been riding since last year January and threw in some running as cross training,couple of kms here and there. By June I was comfortably doing 5km,then end of July I went in for my 2nd cardiac ablation which stopped my running for about 8weeks. Slowly build up my running and by December could run 10kms comfortably. I mentioned to my wife at Christmas that I’d like to do a half marathon in 2020, 2nd of January my with says why not enter the Bay Ultra half on the 1st February,so I did Longest training run was 15kms. Race day felt good,started pacing behind a couple doing about 5-45, running into a slight sea breeze,at the turn still felt good. But as I turned no more breeze and the sweat poured struggled to get a gel down and breathe at the same time,took about 1km to get my breathing under control. At the 15km mark the struggle became real,by 18km my feet,legs,lungs and heart were all telling me to walk for a while but head wouldn’t let me(stubborn) it was the longest 3kms of my life in utter pain. Crossed the line in 2h01m22 sec,the pain was replaced with utter elation,it was a bucket list moment. Thoroughly enjoyed the whole experience. That was my first race but looking forward to my next,hopefully not as undercooked
