Monday, 12 April 2010

Bunny runs

Hello all, Its the bunny run time again, For those of you who don't know the bunny runs are a 3mile run over the Howarth countryside .
Easter Tuesday was the first outing and with a record entry of over 300 runners,
It was a mild plesent evening , sadly the only spen athletes competing were myself, Amanda. and Henry , Both Amanda and I are ofcourse doing the marathon so we only jogged round, I did 27min Henry 29min, Amanda 31mins which was a pb.
Where were all you fell running spen athletes ?

Friday, 19 February 2010

Last weekend was the Liversidge half marathon. We had eight spen runners taking part. I would like to say I had a bad run, but that would be making excuses-so I won't.
At home all week Oliver had been winding me up, by saying he was going to finish before I did.
(Which he did (to my horror)). The bets were still on me to be first. (Sorry-I tried). It was a lovley day and I was up for it.

I got a bit carried away at the start. Though;
frist mile- 7 mins
second mile-15 and a half mins
thrid mile-24 and a half mins
sixth mile- 49.58 mins.
I nearly had him on Jayhorse lane but he got away on the flat again. (8 mile was 68 mins).
Then again I got colse up on the mad mile. As I reached the top I had a dizzy spell and I had to stop for a moment. At this point it was 10 mile - 1.28 hours. By now, I realised I was not going to do a good time and all I wanted to do was finish.
1.55.13 a very disapointing town.
As I did 1.52.42 last year and I had had a cold week prior to racce.
Oliver finished 2 minutes ahead of me but, hey I do have 25 years in him.
Four weeks to the next challenge-the Spen 20...