This is my 100th blog for 'Steve on Hastings', hurrah for moi, but nowhere near as impressive as these folk who ran the Half Marathon! My apologies for the not so brilliant photographs either, but I'm not a photographer, and certainly not without good light! 'twas cloudy all morning, anyway, these are from today...
As usual, the 1066 Pipes and Drums played at the start, a wee bit of Scotland in Hastings!
Half an hour before the start... the start at West Marina Gardens.
Milling around with less than half an hour to go, quite busy with 5000 runners due to start. I cheered on a few friends later, and found out a distant cousin and his wife ran too!
And they're off!
The slower runners start in a later tranche, including those in fancy dress, pushing wheelchairs, pulling barrows, etc...
I walked down to the old town to catch the runners with just a couple of miles to go, he says, after they've already run 11 miles! Anyway, a few minutes ahead of everyone else was the Kenyan runner, Sammy Nyokaye, here quickly going past; Kenyan runners have won the previous 4 Hastings Half Marathons, mens and womens, which shows how important the event has become, with runners of such quality regularly competing here.
Looking up All Saints Street, and down runs the lad in second place...
The leader of the women's race, Kenyan, Mercyline Ondeki, passes the Stag Inn.
The Round Table team down near Pelham Beach.
Less than 2 miles to go, well done everyone who took part, respect!
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