"the cake is a lie"
Unfortunately a week of earlies (with Gang Show each night), and two days of camping proved to be most unsuitable preparation for the Wilmslow Half. I was relatively happy to get round in under 2hrs, 1:56.44, but was disappointed to be some way off my target of 1:40 to 1:45. Still, not too bad for my first Half.
Posted in Running.
– April 2, 2010
Last “proper” race of the year (assuming you don’t count the excellent parkrun’s). The Stockport 10 (miler) is famous for two things. Two bloody steep hills, and an, erm, eccentric, finisher’s goody bag.
This is the longest race I’ve done to date, and was far too excited about it when I woke up this morning. The race was actually quite fun, and the hills actually didn’t present much of a problem for me – training in and around Glossop has it’s advantages, there is only one flat (ish) route in the area, everything else is a hill!
Very happy with my time. I wanted to get round in at least under 1:30 hrs, and would have been very happy to get around 1:25, so I was absolutely stoked to get back in 1:21.
The pictures below are the T-Shirt all finisher’s got – a very nice Technical Tee with a relief map of the route on the front – and the contents of the goody bag (see the video at the end), and a map of the route.
Posted in Running.
– December 13, 2009
A small video thingy and some photos.
Posted in Scouting.
– October 31, 2009
Yesterday saw the final race that I’ve signed up for this year (excluding the weekly parkruns), the Tatton Park 10K.
Over the last three months I’ve ran the Reebok Sizzler 5K series, the Marple 10K and the Tatton 10K. I’m now seriously considering the Wilmslow Half Marathon next March (right after Gang Show, that’ll be good prep!), and the Tatton Park Triathlon next September.
Posted in Running.
– September 28, 2009
