This was my first official race in Sweden, and my first official race in almost 4 years. I did do a virtual half marathon in October 2020, but we ran that as part of a long training run with Solvikingarna and treated it as a comfortably hard training run, until the final mile when I …
![Image shows Pauline and Brian wearing black bin bags in a (fairly successful) attempt to stay warm and dry prior to the start of the race.](https://i0.wp.com/brechinroadrunners.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2023/08/IMG_20230826_095714-scaled.jpg?resize=450%2C300&ssl=1)