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I have been working at home all day so that I don't get interrupted and have a better chance of getting some work done. All my work was in a Word document that I started at 8am and at 2:54pm Word crashed! It is never to me before on my PC at home.
I am going to have to do it all again and as it has got to be done by the end of the week so it looks like I will be working on Saturday
Doh!
Still, I bet the second version is better than the first anyway.
I'll think of you slaving away while I'm in the pub...
To date we know of :-
Rincewind 28
Heavy Breather 355
Tortoise 509
Cat 510 (probably)
Cat's other half 30
Anyone else out there want to admit to entering ?
Good luck to everyone tomorrow. The weather forecast says it will be windy. I hope it pushes me to a PB. I missed my target of 55 minutes by 15 seconds when I did the Leeds Abbey Dash.
Wasn't it fun! It was so good to meet you Rincewind. Fantastic to see a friendly face. You are a star.
Think I might have set a new course record with 80 minutes!!!!!!!!! Ha Ha! But at least I finished. Hope you all enjoyed the day as much as I did.
Wearing my t-shirt, everytime I see it it makes me smile, not least because it is so big. I never expected a shirt from a run to be too big for me, I'm a size 16 for goodness sake! It must be like a night shirt on the more runner sized runners. (~:
I am so in awe of you fast runners. You're fantastic! Inspirational.
Just going to go off and grin at my big t-shirt!
Were you the lady who came in last?
If so well done. They should have given you all the t-shirts that were left (all extra large I believe). All that effort and still all that smiling in the home straight. I was the one who commented in the housing loop that you could ask the police car what your speed was (when I was still playing catch up having missed the start).
Yes folks - the start claxon went off and I was still nowhere near the start, trying to run whilst fastening on my number. First time I've ever started a run at a sprint, but also the first time I could ever say for sure I was definitely warmed up before the start!
For some reason the other half was going to drive, even though it was my car, and he has a sissy new car that starts with a mere flick of the key. He's just not used to cars with character, where you have to maintain a fine balance of length of time holding the key turned with amount of gas pressed (variable with length of time key turned), with relevant number of fingers crossed, balanced against amount of rain in previous 24 hours, temperature and wind speed.
So we were half an hour late setting off (after pushing my car out of the way to get his out of the garage - and may I say mine would have started first time if it'd been in the warm cosy garage overnight too). This, combined with the high number of Sunday drivers off out for their lovely lunch in a lovely country pub, made for a very late arrival.
Still, it was a lovely day wasn't it, much warmer than last year. And was it my imagination but was the first lap much warmer than the second? (could've been my sprinting to catch up I suppose)
Nice to meet Rincewind, and even nicer to get revenge on Heavy Breather for sailing, nay - 'storming' past me in the later stages of the Ripley Castle 10 a while back. See you at the next one!
Tortoise - I'm so happy you finished it and it was great to see you so happy. Back to being Giggling Tortoise I reckon. Now you have a PB to aim at in the future ! I must be one of the lucky ones and got a Large T-shirt. It almost fits.
Cat - Glad the hangover didn't happen. Didn't recognise you without the sunglasses - mind I did only see the back of you as you hurtled past us at great speed !
HB - Thanks for the company and keeping my mind off what I was actually doing. Second lap seemed faster because of it.
Knocked 4 minutes off my PB as well so I'm happy.
Hope to see you all on another one.
CtDL - So that's 1-1! I am looking forward to the rematch. I wondered where you were at the start. I thought maybe a warm bed or a hangover had made you realise the folly of running round the countryside on a cold December morning wearing the equivalent of underwear. (Ah, having just come in from an 8 mile run at the club and having had the distinction of being the only runner in shorts I suppose I can't really comment on dressing sensibly)
The amusing thing is that when you went past me I had the police escort but towards the end I had my very own St John's ambulance van escort!!!!!! How funny is that! (~:
Would you believe they had to rummage around for a t-shirt for me. Yes, by the time I'd finished they had packed them all away. Still I finished, hooray!
Have printed out the 8 week training schedule from the site and got my entry form for the Yorkshire Mill Mile 10k printed out, I've checked and it is genuinely flat. Be cool, not only can I confidently aim to beat my personnal best time but I haven't been to Dewsbury since I got married there nearly 8 years ago.
Heavy breather! How awesome are you following up a 10k with an 8 mile run the next day. I am speechless. How fantastic is that!
Unfortunately I think they have typed the times in wrong and our times are actually the one below our names. Unfortunately that means Tortoises time has gone - so officially you have a great new pb :-)
I'm 195th - I like the sound of that.
What's everyone's next challenge now?
I did not manage 55 minutes
Think I'll get the map out and find Cleethorpes. Is it anywhere near Goole? I have no sense of direction or location (so always say thank you to race marshalls as without them who knows where I could end up!)
Entries have to be in by next Monday and no entries on the day! But you can get the form online at www.woldsvets.20m.com
If no-one turns up with a Beverley entry form at the running club tonight I am definitely posting my Cleethorpes entry tomorrow.
Alas, looks like I'll have to have a lie in New Years Day, start the year as I mean to really go on.
Will think of you getting that elusive 55 mins in the cold whilst I snuggle further down my warm duvet...
:-) Happy Christmas.
xx
NEW YEARS DAY !! I can't believe that they organise events for New Years Day.
Tortoise - I haven't got anything else planned at all at the moment, but did take a sneaky peak at the Yorkshire Mill Mile after you mentioned it. My other half is definitely not keen on standing round in the cold in February though.
Cat - When you mentioned Quakers I thought you must be local-ish. With the Teesside reference do I take it that you not far out of sunny Darlo ?
I am so local you are tripping over me! Sunny, glorious Stockton (the bit just down the back road from Sadberge / Darlo)is where I'm from. But I am fortunate enought to have 'in-laws' in Goole and a partner based in Chester. So lotsa places to find 'local' runs from.
Might turn up at a Quakers meet one day (if I can find Hummersknot school...)
You are lucky - all my relatives live in a very close radius so local is only round here.
If you want instructions on how to get to the school - or a friendly (!) face to go with you to a training session sometime then let me know. Its very very laid back, no-one cares if you just turn up and join in without being a member.