Adam in Runderland

Finally my first race of the year (not counting Parkrun). I'd been waiting for this moment since the beginning of November 2014 when I completed my last half marathon in Lode , Cambridgeshire. At the tail end of last year I was hitting a rich vein of form. I had just broken my Parkrun PB with 19:08 and would have been on course for around 90 minutes in Lode had the course not been cut short due to an illegal rave . In the end I managed the 11 miles in 77 minutes. Sadly this run of form came to an end when I caught a bad cold which blocked my sinuses and eventually went onto my chest. It was the middle of January by the time it had left and since then I have been rebuilding my fitness levels. Before the day came I began to get really nervous. I knew that Brighton was a fast, flat course and that if everything came together I had a good shot at a PB. My previous best time was 1:34:46 set in Birmingham last year and that included a long steep climb. In the back of my mi