Graet North Run 2003 - Who's doing it?

[El Gordo]

Well done Nigel, great report as always. Unfortunately, I seemed to have spent all my writing energy on the journey up to the north-east, and precious little on the race itself.

I'm beginning to feel that I've been a bit mean-spirited about the race. I don't know what it was, but I felt strangely unsatisfied by the experience. This isn't a critiscism of the event - at least not one I can easily identify. I know I keep saying, along with everyone else, that it's not about running a fast time (and of course I mean that relatively - 2:15 would have been fast for me), but perhaps that gave it an air of unreality that undermined the usual battle with myself.

More than that. I'm beginning to think that I'll never be any good at this, and perhaps the GNR just hammered this home. If this had been 18 months ago I'd have prepared much better, which makes me wonder whether I'm beginning to lose a bit of enthusiasm.

Hmm. I'm just off to the pub to watch Arsenal v Newcastle, so I'd better do a bit of ruminating about this.

But anyway Nigel, well done on a great run and a great account of it.

(I just entered the Brighton 10K on Nov 16th. Anyone who wants to enter has to do so before Tuesday. http://www.activeeurope.com for an online entry.)