Climb every mountain

Okay, reality check - when I measured the route I'd run on Tuesday, it turned out to be only 2 miles (in 23 minutes). That works out at about 5mph, or over 2 1/2 hours for a 1/2 marathon, so I'm not quite ready for the Olympics yet - good job I've got 16 weeks yet. Which is good news - the training schedules that I've seen reckon on being race-ready in 10 weeks, so I'm taking this week as a sort of warmup before actually hitting the schedule, and then I'll still have time to spare. I'll just re-arrange the 10-week schedule so that I repeat the last 6 weeks, rather than making it up as I go.
Thursday night, nearly 2 hours of football (we book one hour, but nobody had booked the pitch after us, so we just played until we fell over!) no definite training mileage, but some good fast/slow work and a decent overall cardio workout.
Saturday morning, up the Wrekin. Thick fog, and the car thermometer reading -1 degrees. Where it wasn't slippery with wet mud and fallen leaves was in the more exposed areas, where what had been wet mud and leaves was now frozen. So walk/running up and run/walking down, but taking it easy on the steeper slopes to avoid breaking my neck! About halfway up a guy walking down told me "Keep going, the view from the top is worth it!" The fog started to clear by Hell Gate, and the actual summit was blue sky and sunny, but the view - nothing but the tops of clouds as far as the eye could see!
Anyway, what about the training result? About 3 miles of steep up and down, in about 39 minutes. About the same pace as Tuesday, but further, and harder. As I recall, the winner of last year's race over the same course ran about 18 minutes, that's about 46% of my time! Now, if he was running as hard as the winner of last year's Ironbridge half-marathon (who won - again from memory - in about 1 hour 15 minutes), if we assume that the same ratio of 46% applies, that gives me a time of 2 hours 43 minutes - ties in with the calculation at the top of over 2 1/2 hours. Hmmm...