Little Dip
Lunchtime swim, 10 mins splashing in the Hungerford pool at lunchtime. More beer recovery from yesterdays Virgin London Marathon yesterday, than a proper training session!
VLM (yesterday)
5am start in Calne, picked up Alanna from Newbury at 7, then Tim & Sonya, before heading to Basingstoke Railway Station for the 8:10 to Waterloo.
Headed out to Charlton mile 5-6 for the first stop.
Cans of Stella opened at 10:30am. (thanks to Timikins)
Baz romped it - 3.27! Goal was 3.30, but pushed hard til the end. Struggled at mile 17, but bounced out the other side. We saw him fly by at mile 5 (Charlton) and at the NSPCC section mile 23. They let us get to the front of their cheer point, and grabbed a couple of snaps, before letting someone else have a go.
Natalie Seymour and Mike ran together too, finishing in 5:24. Nat had horrible breathing issues at mile 19m, eventually wearing her down & had to walk the last couple of miles.
After rhe run, we went to Bazza's hotel for the NSPCC reception - very impressive. He got a shower there, massage, and met up with his folks. Headed to the pub where we dowed about 4 pints in the sunshine, Baz celebrated is style with cigars as well.
Some chaps from the club:
9378 Andrew Driver 3:54:46 <-- huh??
12176 Mark Cawley 4:05:21
17528 Doug Hamilton 4:25:13
Confused by Andy's time at the mo, had him down as a 3-3.30.
Steve Dimond also ran, finishing in an impressive 3.23.
Hannah was working in the Cancer Research tent, massaging the runners as they finished. Wasn't able to catchup with her unfortunately, the finish was tickets only, and tubes were rammed!
Got back to Mums about 9pm, shattered! (& lashed)
Some piccies, here.
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