16/11/2025
Kāpiti Half recap 🤩
The 5th edition of the Kāpiti Half Marathon and the event keeps growing every year. For the first time, teams could rent a tent on raceday. About an hour for the race, The Running Collective tent was buzzing with people collecting their bibs and time tags, getting some gels, and chatting up with friendly faces.
It gave me a bit more nerves to get everything sorted, and the Half Marathon in itself was the most nerve-wracking I have run in the past 4 years. Quite quickly in the race, the top two were already decided, but Joshua and I seemed to be very evenly matched.
I did most of the leading, feeling comfortable to set my pace, but a little worried as I could not shake him off. Just when I thought we were going to have to sprint for it, I heard him breathing a bit louder, and he had to leave a bit of distance between us. With about 3.5 k to go, I started increasing the pace a little more, and the countless cheers from other runners and supporters helped me extend my lead.
In the end, I won the nervous race with a very narrow margin of only 10 seconds, but was obviously delighted!
I do feel my body needed a bit of a break though 😅
I didn't really stop running after the Melbourne Marathon, and my sleep hasn't been the greatest lately. It was good to get some well-deserved recovery this week!
In 2025, I ran 6 official races (2 marathons and 4 half marathons) where I ran 4 PBs in total. I managed to improve my full marathon PB from 2h 39'48 to 2h 33'52 and my half marathon from 1h13'27 to 1h11'41, so happy days!
A big thanks to all the people who joined and raced for The Running Collective, the many many familiar faces on and around the course.
It was a delightful day 💙
