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I owe you i beer at the next event we re both at.
I know what it's like waiting for the results when you know they are out.
So you were just 8 places behind me and 10 seconds ish! Can you believe it? News on City of Salisbury to follow tomorrow.
Regards,
Tony
If you're still on line, did I get in under 1;28 or not? I'm not sure of my exact time as I rather fumbled my stopwatch at the start 'cos my fingers were shaking. #3574, with chip&loop fully intact! Around 1:28 dead.
Regards
John Holland
"The provisional results from yesterday's race are available in a special supplement in tonight's Bath Chronicle, which will be posted in the next few days to all those who pre-ordered a copy. They will also be posted on the website shortly. Due to sickness in the office (hospital stay for the race director's son - not serious - and flu/exhaustion for the race secretary) there will be a slight delay in posting these provisional results, and in carrying out the necessary audit before we can confirm the team and category results. Please bear with us
Our sincere apologies for the late arrival of runners' race packs, due to late delivery to us of the numbers. We were intending to mail out to you in the second week in February, but the bulk of the race numbers were not received until the end of the month. The first 5,000 race packs were mailed out on 1st/2nd March, some arrived within 1-2 days but we know of some that have taken up to 10 days, and others that have failed to arrive at all
Our apologies also for poor response to phone calls and e-mail enquiries. This is a small office and although we have been working very hard to respond we have been overwhelmed with enquiries regarding late arrival of race numbers, the vast majority of which have now arrived safely
Finally our apologies to the unfortunate final group of 750 runners whose race numbers were not delivered to us until 5th March and who we had to write to asking them to collect their numbers from the registration desk in the Pavilion (next to the Sports Centre) between 8.00 and 10.00am on the day (or from our information tent from 10.00am to 4.00pm at the Family Sports Day today"
At least 3 apologies there !!
t
PSs..
- Boy Wonder ; living up to your name ?!
- Special Get Well wishes and thanks to the Race director (hope your son is OK..). Sounds like you've had one hell of a week !
- The first race I've ever done where my shoulders/arms (not legs..) were stiff the day after !
- People of Bath ; thanks for letting us run amok in your fine city yesterday ; especially the residents of the house with the music booming out (~mile 2-3 ?)
- Where was The Piper this year ? Presumably these things not waterproof !
- Minty aeros ; yummmmmmmmmmmm
Thinking now about the Bristol half but don't know much about it. Is it flatter and therefore generally faster than Bath?
O... and I'm not Henry Logan, but his wife!
You'd better wear a pink tshirt with yellow spots and matching hat next time Tony.
Are you going to email me details of Salisbury or post on here? either will do.
You got 1:28:03. Pos. 254. What a shame. You just missed a sub-1:28.
Alan
Actually I'm not disappointed in the least. My target was 1:30, and I smashed my previous PB by the massive margin of 4 min 18 sec.
I'm over the moon with this one, the race went to plan, and it should set me up nicely for an attempt at 3:15 at London.
Cheers
I need the names I'm afraid.
Alan
Maybe you are right. Maybe I was a bit harsh and maybe I should take it as a kind of compliment! On the other hand, the idea that fellow runners were clearly laughing at *my* agony (I was making lots of noises), suggests a kind of stigma around pushing onseself to the limit. If that is the correct reading then I find the reaction a problem.
Alan
Very noisy runners do sometimes raise a smile, it's true. But no, people aren't "laughing at *your* agony". They're laughing at the noise you're making - usually on the grounds that it sounds like someone having a very loud orgasm.
Quite an important distinction to understand.
Got my number wrong, can anyone get my time? Number 2239, about 2 hours. Anyone help?
I had heard about the Race Director's son being hospitalised on Sunday night but obviously didn't want to make this known to all - I believe he's OK but best wishes to Andrew and Mel and family (and all in the race office trying to pick up the pieces).
If anyone wants to post or e-mail constructive suggestions on how the race can be improved next year, I will add them to some thoughts of my own and pass them onto Andrew in due course at our debriefing.
Think it's all been said, but for the record I definitely fall into the "could do better camp" on this event.
Ran 1:29:10 (gun time) coming back from injury, so happy with that, having done nothing for 2 weeks prior.
Great to meet a few forumites beforehand (and during, and after - SPANS!), well done to all (racers and supporters) who toughed it out in some fairly miserable conditions.
I presume that you will be having a post event de-briefing amongst the team once the dust has settled. That will give us a cut-off date for feedback. Why not set that up your request as a separate thread on the Events section?
(Just to save mixing information in a very busy thread)
Boy Wonder - thanks for being here and taking the flack, will put something together for you.
Best wishes to the race directors family