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how is everyone?
I've had chicken pox, and shingles, so I'll be fine I'm sure
Oh poor li'l Teya.
The worst thing is the itching - my mum's patented method of minimising this (psychologically as well as physically) is to pat the scabs gently with a wet finger and say 'naughty scab, don't itch.'
Worked for Jjunior. apparently.
Cheers FB will get him to look at that later - he only printed off the directions this morning
AH what club to do belong to Black and Yellow also happens to be our Running Club colours?
Witham - black with yellow writing. - popular colour round here too, like you start shouting at the wrong people, but sure they need geeing up
lol, thanks all. Jj, you make me laugh hun xx
As for the T2 experience, I can see how you forgot, the run in from Eckersmuhlen (sp) once you complete the 2nd lap is mind numbing and you really want the lap to end at that point.
It comes up on you quite quickly, one minute you are focusing on the last 5 miles and then as its a bit short course, bang there it is. You see it on the right hand side and as you pull in they take the bike for you, you run straight through to the bag area just past the dismount point and all the bags are lined up on the floor, they are a kind of hessian type affair as far as I can remember so very distinctive, maybe this will change this year, pick your bag up and then following everyone else into the correct tent, one side in, one side out.
As you exit the tent there is a load of toilets and every drink you could need in a big line, then you cross a few roads, a small section to a quick 50 metre downhill and then a drag up to the canal.
Before the change to the town centre the run climbed to a central point in a type of T shape where there was a lot of support, the best place to see everyone more than once, you then go left and out to a town and turn round, come back to the T, the straight through to the other turnround and back again, and then by the sounds of it a new finish in the town centre which if I recall is a lovely place with small streets and lots of traffic free areas.
"Bicycle finish: Handing over of transponder to the runner within the relay transition zone bike/run (at the marked places)."
doesn't mention who racks the bike but I'm assuming that we have to do this before handing the chip over so won't get our bike taken
When I did the relay, they took my bike as I entered T2 and I ran along the side of the field. The runners were all corralled in an area to the side and I handed over the chip. Two things that struck me
1. the holding area for runners was in direct sunshine, worth preparing for if you're unsure when your cyclist will get to you. It's long ad thin. I don't know if the assign places but maybe try hanging a pirate flag or something?
2. the showers: I know I've mentioned them before but at the back to T2 there are garden hoses set up so people can have a quick shower. Talk about walking onto the set of a dodgy german porn movie. Everyone was naked, you stood in line and took your turn of a. holding the hose, 2, soaping up the showeree and finally 3. being soaped up, hosed....... Gender didn't matter a jot and there was a lot of body bits hanging out. I'm traumatised to this day....
Tee hee - smiley, no you're not! You've spent long enough in Germany to know the athletes here are not shy.
rosey, poor Teya, hope it isn't too rough for her. I had it at 12, the doc said absolutely no chance of me ever getting it again as I was ill in bed for 3 weeks with spots everywhere you can think of, under my nails, up my nose, in my eyes, no speck of me that wasn't spotted. My brother had about 6 spots and a headache, that was it! Hope Teya has that kind of CP.
Rosey I hope Miss Grumpy improves
AH...Hope i finish the race and get to the showers with you....
ha,ha,ha, The showers at the Palma, Majorca marathon were like that, trumatised Mrs TB...even i get pushed out if i try and get in the shower with her
FB...That is the route my sat nav gave me... you want Badstrasse 37, Roth-Wallesau though.
Showers sound a bit scary!
Right, I'm wibbling like a wibbly thing, but at least I have black and yellow nail polish (you can borrow mine AH to save you a journey) so I'm sure everything will be ok.
I may not have trained properly, but I have a new sparkly pirate top! What could possibly go wrong!
Ditchy - the right kit and yellow and black nails. And your indomitable spirit. Don't forget that, m'dear.
There'll be no probs finding our tent... AR has just taken delivery of a 6m skull and crossbones flag. He was worried it wasn't yellow and black but who cares? I came back just now to find it fluttering in the garden.