Dave England

Jersey, Jersey

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Regent's Park Summer 10k

August 7th, 2016

9999.7 39 4491

Two Tunnels 10k

July 10th, 2016

9916.5 97.7 3331

Dame Kelly Holmes 10k

June 12th, 2016

9855 3148

Durrell Challenge

May 15th, 2016

13100.3 175.9 4735

Bournemouth Bay Run 10k

April 3rd, 2016

10053.3 50.4 3293

Silverstone Half Marathon

March 13th, 2016

21507.5 62.7 8240

Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park 10k

February 6th, 2016

10147 3200

Cancer Research Winter Run London

January 31st, 2016

10696.4 56 4371

Regent's Park Winter Series 10k

December 13th, 2015

10083.4 38.8 3072

Poppy Half Marathon

November 7th, 2015

21255.1 86.5 7442

Color Run Brighton

October 10th, 2015

4591.5 21.2 2047

Marathon Relay leg 5

October 4th, 2015

9209.8 51.5 2824

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Jersey Road Festival 5k, St Helier, Jersey

June 13th, 2015

5030 27.8 1480

Jersey Road Festival 10k St Ouen, Jersey

June 12th, 2015

8975.6 112.4 2961

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Silverstone Half Marathon, Towcester, United Kingdom

March 15th, 2015

21493 60.7 8426

[{"image":{"filepath":"public:\/\/default_images\/transparent.png"},"textarea":{"index":0,"content":"\u201cUnfinished Business\u201d was a phrase I used in the immediate aftermath of this years Silverstone Half Marathon. \u201cDisappointing\u201d was another. \u201cExcellent\u201d was yet another. Looking back it was all of that and more. Unfortunate. A missed opportunity. Thrilling. Memorable. I could pick a thousand individual words and they\u2019d all be relevant to some bit of the race.\n\nLooking back now on the Monday following the race I now have had some time to process it all, but will need more.\n\nSo let\u2019s retrace steps. Before the race was great. The drive to the circuit was very chilled out and we did get to explore the circuit at least a little before the main event.\n\nIn my previous post I said \u201cI know I have it in me to run faster than last year so it\u2019s about the body holding up and just getting it done on the day\u201d and during the hours leading up to the race my body felt better than it had in weeks. Great, I was ready.\n\nWe took an unexpectedly long time to cross the start line but got going well. Jean and I set a slightly faster pace than planned and separated sooner too. The atmosphere out on course was fantastic. I loved it. They had added a live band and two DJs to the route which really did help build a good positive vibe.\n\nNothing remarkable stands out for the first 8 miles or so. I was running at a reasonable pace that I was content with. I did 10km at a passable 57mins. Through 12 of the 21-ish kilometres I was at (by my GPS timing) around 1:08:54. Throughout the first half of the race I was doing rough calculations of what sort of finish time I was heading for. It was around 2:00 maybe 2:01. Not quite my two-hour target but perfectly acceptable.\n\nIt went wrong in the thirteenth kilometre. Very wrong. I had managed the fitness in my left knee perfectly well all race long but around this time pain started in my right knee. A fair amount of pain. First I thought about stopping running to just walk a bit. I quickly dismissed the thought and accelerated back to normal pace again. My right knee had other ideas though. So before long I accepted that this race wasn\u2019t going to see a repeat of last year\u2019s running-the-whole-way effort. A bit of walking then another drive at running. Repeat. Pretty much all the way until the last mile marker. By about 18k both of my calf muscles were painfully protesting at what was probably a large amount of extra strain being put on them because of the knees not really working.\n\nThe rest of the race was just a tug-of-war between pain and resolve and I think that battle ended in a draw. I finished but not in a time I\u2019m all that happy with.\n\nBut I DID FINISH and no one can take that away from me. But I know I can not just run a half-marathon in under two hours but I will run THIS half in under two hours. We will undoubtedly be back. The organisation was excellent. The marshals encouraging. The journey great fun. Even the training by-and-large was enjoyable. I will be back because I have unfinished business with this race. As I write this I see that the race web site has already moved on to the 2016 event next March. Bring it on!\n\nSo, the Garmin link at the top of this post shows my race progress. If you use the map screen on Satellite view mode, ignore it. The satellite image is well out-of-date and doesn\u2019t have the new Wing pit complex showing, nor half of the Stowe circuit (the one I drove on last summer). The image makes it look like most of the race was off-road which it wasn\u2019t.\n\nMy official race time was 2:20:39. Eleven minutes outside my best, but under the circumstances I must be happy. It was the best I had on the day. There\u2019ll be better days. I\u2019ll make sure of it!"},"link":{"url":null}}]

Jersey Marathon Relay leg 2

October 5th, 2014

9577.5 98.5 3381

Run Jersey 10k, St Ouen, Jersey

June 7th, 2014

10056.9 41.4 3193