London Inline Marathon 2017 - Half Marathon

For the third year running the London Inline Marathon was back at the Queen Elisabeth Olympic Park.

Before the race began I did a warm up run around the venue. My logic was to leave it as late as possible to ensure my body felt pumped and ready. After I dashed to secure my items in the locker. I was with my friend Elisabeth and we were having issues making the lock, lock! So as I hear racers for the half marathon being called Elisabeth kindly took my belongings with her and I dashed to boot up. As I placed my skates on the tarmac I see that skaters were already racing on the other side of the track! So that's gold out of the question!! 

In my defence they did start five minutes early. Lesson learnt all the same though!

The race itself was fun. Like the previous year when I did start with everyone else I was skating without pacing with anyone for practically the whole race. I'm quite happy doing that, especially as I haven't practiced any sort of pacelining this year.
I have however been doing a fair bit of running. Up to 11 miles that is. The distance over-training helped with my 9k obstacle race last week and I definitely felt the benefit too with the skate half marathon. I attacked each lap with a solid effort, with lap time differences being less than 30 seconds.

Despite the initial mishap I had a good time rolling around the track on the speed skates.

My half marathon time was:
48minutes 21 seconds

3rd in the Senior age category.

Photos © 2017 Chun Wah NG