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What a day…
By Chris | February 20, 2008
Well what a day! Crispy cold, bright sunshine, no underwater bits and best of all, most of the mud was semi-frozen. The water and smiles at the check points were nice too. The finish looming out of the darkness was even nicer, especially as I had a well meaning mate bawling on the phone saying, ‘you’d better be running boy’, ‘where are you?’ and ‘you can get in under 12 hrs if you try’.
Well I fell into Kathy’s arms (figuratively speaking) in 11:59, just 4 minutes inside my predicted time of 12:03 and nearly 2 hrs inside my original finishing time. Woo, hoo. I ain’t no speed runner but this was a good time for me (a PB) and all achieved with a mega blister and a dopey right leg. So was this vast improvement down to my having invested some of my cash in a personal coach? I like to think it was. Certainly my endurance and pacing was much better and even though I walked some, my fitness was still much improved.
Great day all round. Got the gong and the obligatory mug. Even the T-shirt fitted. Medium Steve, not large like you tried to give me.
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