Did the half marathon today. It was a cold day, with the wind in the wrong direction - the whole route was set up on the basis of a prevailing south-westerly but today it was from the east. Nevertheless, I was going well and on target for around 1.43, but something nasty happened deep inside my left thigh with about 5km to go and I limped home very painfully in about 1.48. There is nothing worse than feeling you are going backwards, as runner after runner overtakes you...
*update - actually, I just checked the official times, and it was 1.46.16 and 85th out of 630, so not as bad as I thought (especially for my first ever competitive half). Still as painful, though.