The Great Birmingham Run 10k

Sunday May the 5th was time for the Great Birmingham Run 10k & Half, Anna and I were taking part in the 10k.

We arrived in Birmingham pretty early ( well about an hour and a half before we had to start). We got parked up and made our way to find the start, but as you do when you are at on of these big events, we just followed the crowds of runners and headed in that direction 😂, as we was walking through Birmingham we did notice how beautiful the architecture was, the buildings were amazing.

When we found the start we wanted to find the baggage drop and of course the loos 😂 the baggage was about a mile from the start and loos dotted around the start.

As we got closer to the start of the race, Anna and I wished each other luck 😘👩‍❤️‍💋‍👨 and I headed to do my warm up.

The atmosphere was buzzing and the heat was definitely warming up, to the point I was thinking 🤔 🤨 I’m definitely gonna have to take on water at half way, anyway I got into my starting block which luckily was at the front, it was so crowded at the start, shoulder to shoulder in fact, horn goes at 9:30 and we was off, with a slight down hill at the start, but couldn’t get into my pace or rhythm as it was so crowded!

Soon the crowds thinned about a 1k in tho, but within the first 3k the course was very rolling with some sharp turns so it became apparent that this was definitely not gonna be a quick course and combined with the heat, but the support was fantastic around this part of the course and it definitely pushed you around.

Hitting the 5k mark and seeing the water station was a relief as I definitely needed to take on some water, I just felt like I was overheating, so I grabbed a bottle of water, struggled to take the lid off 🤦🏻‍♂️ 😂 and poured most of it down my back and over my head ! Off I went again and tried to get back into some sort of rhythm, I did and the water definitely did the trick, just wanted to finish strong now so I just gave what I had in the last couple of kilometres, but have to admit the last 1k was a bit crap 😂 they took us down some back street which was a bit dingy and you could hear a pin drop as they was no support there until the last 100m to the finish, it was a nice sight seeing the finish line which I crossed in 38:13, sweating buckets I walked around the finish area waiting for Anna to finish, she crossed in 51:20, congratulations darling very proud of you 😘😘💕💕💕

Below are a few race photos from the event

And a short video