With eatingtrees being designated driver for the day, off we popped after a night of little sleep (thanks George) and promptly arrived in a car park quite far away from where we wanted to be. A few walks from the car and back quickly made us realise that although the temp said 9 ish degrees, the wind reality was something altogether different. 2 questions at this point popped into my head. WHY DID I NOT HAVE A LONG SLEEVE TOP ON and WHY DID I NOT HAVE A WOOLLY HAT WITH ME!!! Idiot boy.
I had a cotton T-shirt on over the top of my running top and this was intended to be cast aside at the last minute before the start. Nope. Not with that wind. I quickly re-attached my number to the old t-shirt and now intended to run with both. It was a good decision!
We met up with Fitartist (and the support crew of Edward and Hector) and planned to run it together. No need to push all the way with something like this. Grinning/Smiling and shrieking when water reaches the parts other puddles can't reach is the way forward. We all found it pretty tough going but it wouldn't be fun if it was easy.
My chip time came in at 1:45:40 which is about 45 minutes longer than I've run at any point in the last 5 months so the feeling of crossing the line was wonderful. An awesome T-shirt this year I must say...
T-SHIRT WITH ADDED GEORGE DRIBBLE AND YOGURT
Mrs HMC, our resident photographer and supporter wasn't able to be with us this time due to George's first swimming lesson (which he loved may I add) but there are a couple of great photo's over on Fitartist's blog.
A final shout must go out to eatingtrees who not content on dragging fitartist through the first big puddle he found, then promptly lost his footing and went splashing around within the first 200m. Only another 14km to go with soggy shorts and a bleeding knee then!!
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that looks a great event! Well done as well :) you always get numpties at the front, it sounds more like a fun run than anything competitive :)
ReplyDeleteOh yes, that t-shirt is rather dribbly isn't it?! Maybe I'll get away with wearing it ;) Thank you so much for hanging back and seeing me through it, I loved it, but it was tough wasn't it? I get the feeling you two could have forged ahead and got a faster time, but you were very generous in encouraging me around. See you there next year? :)
ReplyDeleteAdele, It was a great team run and yes it was tough. I still have very heavy legs so can't work out how you're still running everyday but next year (or the end of this year actually), Hell yeah. See you there!
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