Carly Audritt, Adam Miller, Emma Dupain and Ben White at the end of the Bath Half.Whilst the Grizzly was in full swing on the Jurassic Coast, Adam Miller, Emma Dupain and Ben White were in Avon and toeing the start line of the Bath Half Marathon.
For Adam this has historically been a lucky course, this being his 4th year of running it and with each of the previous 3 years he set a new PB on the course. This year the event coincided with his birthday and so what better present than if he could manage to produce yet another PB. Following recent problems with his achillies, however, a PB would be a very very tall order. Never one to not try though, Adam set out hard and covered the first 10k in a swift 36.40. He fought hard in the second half of the race to sustain the pace but couldn't quite set a new PB, but wasn't far off it. He stopped the clock at 1.19.00 (chip time 1.18.55) and claimed 103rd place (out of over 10'000 runners - impressive huh?!). His girlfriend Carly also had a good race, completing in 1.49, giving her a confidence boost in her first London Marathon build up.
Emma Dupain loves the half-marathon distance and usually competes in about 5 events over this distance over the course of the year. On this occasion she clocked a time of 1.44.22 for 2026th place overall, putting her inside the top 20% of finishers.
Emma's partner Ben was also running but in a number acquired at the last minute, so the results do not appear in his name. I have it on good authority though that he set a new PB over the 13.1 mile distance - very well done to him!
The race was won by talented Kenyan athlete Edwin Kiptoo, in a new course record of 1.02.01.
Winning female was also Kenyan, Jane Muia, in 1.11.19.
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