17 March 2008

STRONG RUN FROM MICHELLE IN ENDINBURGH

Report by Steve (Michelle's partner and manager etc!) Michelle was invited up to run in a newly controlled and revised Edinburgh Half Marathon. As always she put her heart and sole into it on a cold and very windy Sunday Morning with wind speeds of 20mph+. The course was a Point to Point. The start was in a district of Edinburgh called Cramond, the race took place on a mixture of Tarmac coastal promenade bleeding in and out of local coast roads to the finish at Musselburgh race course. There was a total runner count in excess of 3000+, predominately male, with Michelle being one of only a few elite class females.  As she puts it... "I ran the first mile with a moderate cross wind then 12.1 miles directly into the strong wind! My finishing time does not really represent how hard I had to work to get there".  She finished in the top 10 overall and was the the first female home by more than 5 minutes. Although her time was a none PB threatening 76 minutes, all in all it was a good run for experience in difficult running conditions, and to enforce her current fitness, strength and ability levels. Check out Michelle's website at www.rossrunning.co.uk