{"id":4545,"date":"2018-10-01T14:55:40","date_gmt":"2018-10-01T14:55:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/?p=4545"},"modified":"2018-10-01T14:55:40","modified_gmt":"2018-10-01T14:55:40","slug":"ealing-half-marathon","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/isleofwightroadrunners.net\/?p=4545","title":{"rendered":"Ealing Half Marathon"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Voted the UKs best half marathon for not one but three years in a row, Ealings half marathon has become the biggest race in West London. Runners from over 30 different countries line up together to get that #ealingfeeling. From the humble ideas of a group of runners from the Ealing Eagles Running Club, this race has certainly achieved their original goal of inspiring people from within the borough to run.<\/p>\n

Starting in Lammas Park the runners head out on fully closed roads toward Walpole Park, our Harry Vernon amongst them.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

\u201cThis was the final leg of my family half marathon trilogy. In December I ran the Portsmouth Coastal Half where my mum lives, in March I ran Frankfurt half where my sister lives and now was the turn of Ealing, West London where my brother lives\u201d<\/p>\n

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Pressing on toward Ealing Golf Course, the field turned South before chucking a right at the rail station and heading into West Ealing for a mostly out and back section and toward Brent Valley Golf Course before returning to the rail station and then continuing back to Lammas Park.<\/p>\n

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\u201cThe atmosphere was amazing! The street were lined with people cheering the runners on, offering us sweets and water. There were cow bells, foghorns and a couple of samba bands to get the heart pumping faster. There was even a live band\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe race went well and I kept up the runners from my section and the 1.40 pacer was there not too far away in the distance.<\/p>\n

At mile 10 my legs ran out of steam but a pb was there for the taking if I could just hold it together for the last three miles. Willpower and encouragement from my family got me through and I collapsed in a happy heap as I crossed the line\u201d<\/p>\n

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Harry did hold it together and he got his pb knocking a minute off his previous time finishing in 1.40.29.
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