Thursday, 22 April 2010

The Fourteenth Photo


So here we all are at the Stansfield Arms in Apperley Bridge at the end of our distance training course. Course leader Mick ran his Spring marathon last week at Lochaber and set a target that none of us is likely to get near – 2:59:29. Sophie has also run her marathon, two weeks ago at Paris with 4:35:31 - almost twenty five minutes faster than target. Six of us will run London this weekend – Mark, Rachel, Dairine, Julie, Nikos and me. Chris and Simon are running Sheffield half this weekend. Nikos is running the Great Wall of China Marathon in May which should be a phenomenal experience. Lisa is running Edinburgh in May. Laura and Liz are running Leeds Half on 9th May. I think Barney may be running Sheffield half and Tony may be running Leeds half, but I may have just made that up.

We all agree it’s been a great course well led and structured by Mick. It certainly got me out and running in conditions where I’d have been curled up on the sofa eating junk food accompanied by a drink or two. I met a few new people and got re-acquainted with some runners from the previous course. I’ve learnt plenty about the theory of how best to run a marathon. All that’s left is the simple task of running it. What could be easier?

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