I went off too fast and for the last eight miles just concentrated on putting one foot in front of the other and I also stopped a few times with cramp.” She ran a far better race than I did and she deserves the win and the record. While the Welsh athlete ahead was slowing, she ran another 42:07 and although then slowing to 44:04 she overtook her before 40km to take 12 minutes off the British record with 3:00:19.īoth runners covered the last 2195m in 10:37 with Mair also taking a chunk off the UK best with 3:00:54.
Johnson paced it better with 41:41 and then 42:07 to pass halfway two minutes down in 88:19. However, she struggled on the second half with 10km splits of 42:34 and then 45:55.
This time Mair set off quickly with opening 10km splits of 40:21 and 41:27 to reach halfway well inside record schedule with 86:22. While the W55 race saw a world mark, the W60 race saw a British record and major revision of the all-time list.įive years ago, Angharad Mair and Treena Johnson fought out a great battle in London and Mair’s 2:54:49 was a UK W55 record and Johnson, with 2:55:34, also smashed the previous record.
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