Halstead is great

After the race with eye watering bright finisher shirt, nice medal and a cheesy grin. I absolutely loved it, the organisers did a great job and the route was fantastic. Didn’t have a chance to take more pictures though. My apologies. I blame this guy, who seemed to be very familiar with this race, knowing and chatting to almost everyone on the way. He turned out to be an ultra runner and had very interesting stuff to say, so I tried to keep up with him as long as I could, which was much faster than I have ever approached a marathon so far. The result is a PB around 3:40, which I never thought would be possible judged by my fitness level and the last two rather bumpy long training runs. This guy is a miracle man, I need to stay in touch with him.