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I feel a bit better about things now
still smarting about Saturday, but looking forward to next season - Please Please Mr Ferguson, buy us a goal keeper!!
Many thanks for the good wishes for Sunday's run
Well Sunday, yes it was certainly an experience, my third go at this - in fact it's only been going for 3 years- I object to the huge entry fee and to the fact that they seem to mix runners in with charitly walkers at random,
( apparently because they were offering paid charity places this year they couldn't get everyone sorted out according to race times - hhhmmm.) But nevertheless there is definitely a carnival atmosphere about it and everyone is mostly good humoured, mind you I did end up with an elbow up my nose at the rather congested 2nd wave start when a guy to my side decided to adjust his shirt, still, was probably my fault for being short.
The Hoegarten had settled quite nicely so wasn't feeling too delicate. Start was so busy my Garmin wouldn't pick up a gps signal so had to travel just on time.
Was magic to see Haille and the rest of the elite running back as we headed out along the Chester Road to Old Trafford, they got loads of applause from us lesser beings staggering out in the opposite direction.
Weather was fairly perfect and I felt comfortable most of the way, unfortunately miss-timed the finish, I thought the garland of balloons must be the finish - but it was at least another 400 yards further on, damn, and I'd timed my sprint finish to perfection ;-) My United shirt proved to be a very comfortable running shirt too.
Odd thing is my Garmin timed it as 1 hour and 39 seconds, the chip timer had me coming in at 1hour 2 minutes and 4 seconds ??? Any suggestions?
Might enter the "proper" Manchester 10 k, the one that had been run by the YMCA for years before the Great Run people muscled in. The Police refused to close the City Centre twice so the YMCA couldn't run last year, but they are back next month starting from the City Stadium ( where the Commonwealth games were held) should be a nice flat course too.
Good luck for your impending 10k('s?) Andy
Phew this is hard work !
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