After breaking the 40 minute barrier the previous month, and being only 5 seconds from 39 minutes, a target of 38.30 on a fast course was daring but not impossible.
Weather conditions were decent on the night - cool although the usual winds blowing up the Severn estuary which could have an effect on the 2nd half of the course. I felt in OK shape - good recent form but midway through moving house with the obvious stresses and strains which accompany that kind of madness.