I am fully recovered now, and no longer have excuses for missing training runs but nevertheless I am still managing to miss ’em. I’ve therefore been out on the search and found another ghoulish run to do, its called the Box Hill Knacker Cracker – an extremely hilly run on New Years day. OGB has remained strangely quiet since I emailed him the joining instructions. On completion you get an embroidered cap, illustrating a set of testicles split by a lightening rod. That would go down well at the lotty I think and would have a longer fashion season than the usual post race medal.
New Year is a way off but fortunately I have a few more races in the run up to Christmas. After a bit of a long GNR recovery period I’ve booked myself up for two races this weekend. Its the inaugural Richmond Park 5km Time Trial this Saturday (see update), then on Sunday it’s the Cabbage Patch 10-miler around Twickenham. December the 1st is going to be a jolly muddy day as a few of us head down to Aldershot – army barracks zone – for the Grim 8 which appears to be an 8-mile run through a pond and Christmas day will start off with a blast round Bushy Park for the time trial.
For those that are tempted to complain that time trials only ocur in the south, I have to point out that there is now one in Leeds which is well oop North and another in Zimbabwe, which could be either North or South depending on your chosen route. All start at 9am on Saturday so I’m sorry about that.
*UPDATE* Looks like the Richmond Park Time Trial has been postponed!
I’m unable to read the newsletter on the parkrun site but the headlines suggest there is no point turning up this Saturday morning */UPDATE*
I’ve just got round to downloading the race video from the finish line of the Great North run. It was quite enlightening. While running down the finishing straight I swear I was sprinting and I wondered why the commentator wasn’t drawing attention to my zippy pace. The video reveals the truth I’m afraid.
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