The
Retford Half Marathon goes ahead. It is run by Retford Athletic club and starts again at Retford Oaks Academy where
this year we manage to arrive early enough to get in the car park.
The race opens with a brief trip through the town before
heading out on to country roads, with one of those annoying out and back
sections in the middle to make up the distance. It is on closed roads for the
majority of the route with just the last mile back to Retford on opened roads
where you need to precariously time your overtaking while running on the narrow
pavement.
My time is 1:45:09 this year. That’s not bad and just 9 seconds
down on last year, so at least I’m consistent for once. They hand out a running
vest at the end, which is different, but won’t be of much use to the majority.
