Yesterday, saw me run the Tywardreath Trotter. This is a 7 mile multi terrain race based near St Austell.
I took my coach's advice of starting off slowly and spent most of the race without seeing any runners at all.
We had to run near a river and run back the same way when we were coming back. Ran through that area with no problem, running back and fell over. I didn't want another DNF (did not finish) and didn't feel it was serious enough to pull out and thought it was just mud I had on my hands and knee.
Caught up with club mate; but got pipped near the end and just beaten by him.
Time (according to my watch) was 1:33:54. Not amazing; but it is the furthest distance I've run, ever.
I now have delayed onset muscle soreness (DOMS) and a small bruise and cut on my knee where I fell over yesterday.
Next race is hopefully the Indian Queens Fun Run.
Sunday 28 July 2013
Sunday 14 July 2013
The British 10k
Warning - the following post is a rant.
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The organisation was awful. It took them until the 7th to tell us that some of us won;t be getting our race packs until late. Mine arrived on the Saturday before the race.
This meant I had to go and get a new number and pins.
The weather was awful - it was too hot to race. We were made to wait around for half an hour with no-one telling us what was going on or when we were going to start.
There were no toilet facilities and we weren't given any water before the race.
We received a medal; but no goody bag. We had to walk about a mile back to get our bag and medal. It was then another good mile before I could find a tube station.
Awful, awful race. I want to know what exactly my £50 went on.
Wouldn't recommend this one. Think I'll do the London 10,000 in May instead. Only £26, better organisation, a goody bag, toilets on route and we all knew roughly when we were going to start racing.
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The organisation was awful. It took them until the 7th to tell us that some of us won;t be getting our race packs until late. Mine arrived on the Saturday before the race.
This meant I had to go and get a new number and pins.
The weather was awful - it was too hot to race. We were made to wait around for half an hour with no-one telling us what was going on or when we were going to start.
There were no toilet facilities and we weren't given any water before the race.
We received a medal; but no goody bag. We had to walk about a mile back to get our bag and medal. It was then another good mile before I could find a tube station.
Awful, awful race. I want to know what exactly my £50 went on.
Wouldn't recommend this one. Think I'll do the London 10,000 in May instead. Only £26, better organisation, a goody bag, toilets on route and we all knew roughly when we were going to start racing.
Sunday 7 July 2013
The weather
Urgh. What an awful week for training weather-wise. It's too hot, unless I want to get up at 5am, which at the moment, is so tempting.
No idea how I'm going to do my first half marathon in September if the weather carries on like this.
No idea how I'm going to do my first half marathon in September if the weather carries on like this.
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