 Welcome to film my run, my name's Stephen Cousins. Today, we're at Hampton Court. We're doing the Hampton Court half marathon. It's not actually Hampton Court, I think we're in Thames, Ditten. I'm gonna try and pace my wife to a sub 150 half marathon. It's never been done before, but I'm gonna get her in. Don't you worry about that. It looks like a really nice day. There's about 4,000 runners. I've never run this race before, so I'm interested to see what it's gonna be like. It was supposed to be a family day out with my two brothers. One of them's injured, so my other one is running his. This is Simon. The race has already started. We're going off in waves of about 500 each. Victoria thought she'd look like an idiot if she wore a backpack, but everyone's wearing a backpack, so there's loads of them. Instead, she's getting me to carry. We're on time in terms of pace, but it is very busy and we are on open mode. There's a sign saying run on the pavement, but it's really not possible because there are so many people. It feels a bit dangerous to me, but we're running past the race village. Okay, let's just stop and talk about road crossings. You can see this race was very busy. We're on a main road that's open to traffic. At one point, we did come to a road crossing where there was a marshal doing his best to keep order, keep everyone safe, and he did shout out clearly for everyone to stop to let the traffic through. Now, one runner ignored this and ran straight onto the road, risking his life, risking the safety of people in cars and the safety of the other runners. Please, if a marshal asks you to stop at a road crossing, it is an instruction, and it's in the rules that you need to listen and adhere to the instructions of marshals. They're doing their job, they're doing it to the best of their ability, and they are volunteers, so please listen. Okay, we're nearly through the mars into Hampton Court Half. It still hasn't thinned out very much. There's still loads of people, but at least we'll buy the river now instead of on the road. Five miles into the Hampton Court Half marathon. And we're doing all right, we're keeping pace, everything's all right. If you know the Thames-Meander marathon, that's where this comes, just around here. Just over six miles into the Hampton Court Half, a little bit of river running, a little bit of road running. Still very, very crowded. We're doing ourselves though, because it's sunny weather, it's nice. Victoria, the fool that she is, saw that she was on for a 10K PB, so she sprinted on up ahead to try and get that. I don't think she's got it, I think she's just missed it. Thank you. Look, I know this is a residential street, right? But this is not a closed road, and look, there are just far too many people to be on this road. I reckon next year, they've really got to look at capacity in this race. Five miles into the Hampton Court Half, the sun is still shining, there's still loads and loads of people on the course, it hasn't thinned out at all. I thought we were enjoying it, it's all right. Sorry, I'm enjoying it. I don't know about everybody around me. We're just passing Hampton Court Pass, three miles to go, we might try and speed up in a minute if Victoria feels up to it. A little sun shining. Beautiful day, as quick as we can now. That's a little bit, nice finish in the park. Well done, well done. We came in at 148 something. Yes! We jogged from the car park at Sandown Racecourse to the start because the bus was charging at the park and ride five pounds per person. For us, that would have been 15 pounds, though surely they should be encouraging. Car sharing and maybe charging five pounds per car, but 15 pounds for three of us seems extortionate, so we jog to the start. One thing to say about this half-nurse and on very busy roads is that, do you know what, so many people, I'm sure that is a game, races with open roads that you shouldn't be wearing headphones. Maybe it stands in the race direction, I don't know. But given my concerns in the first three miles of this race about, this particular road here, just look how busy this road is. And remember what it was like when we had 4,000 runners kind of spilling out onto the road at the same time, and then you've got people wearing headphones as well who can't hear any direction from other runners or from marshals. Recipe for disaster? Possibly. The Hampton Court half-marathon Victoria got her PB148, but it's going to be sunny, but it has been, so it's been gorgeous in the sunshine. And do you know what, I'm going to complain though about those first three miles, really dangerous on the roads. I don't think the organisers have assessed the capacity as it's grown over the last few years. They really need to address that, because at some points there was runners running right out in the middle of the road on open roads with quite busy traffic. So that needs to be looked at. Other than that, to the YouTube channel, youtube.com forward slash fill my run, www.fillmyrun.com. We'll see you for the next race. Take care, bye-bye.