Tamworth 5
Today was my last scheduled race prior to the Bournemouth Marathon in 3 weeks’ time. Whilst only a 5 miler, part of the course goes within 20 metres of my front door so any opportunity to have a bit of a sharpener was not to be missed. I purposely did not ease off during the week and made sure I did a reasonably decent Thursday session followed by my normal Friday run and then just eased back to a shorter run the day before. As a result my legs were pretty fatigued going into the race, but frankly that was the whole point. I also wanted to test out the Nike Vaporfly 4% racers I had bought about 18 months ago but due to injury have never worn. These shoes were released to much fanfare as part of the Nike ‘Breaking 2’ project where it was claimed that due to the plate inside it could make you run up to 4% quicker – something not to be sniffed at if true. The plan today was to break them in and see how my feet got on with them and if all went well to use...