TUNNEL RUN 2014.
Hello everyone, so I’ve
just realised that I forgot to press post on the tunnel run report. Therefore here
it is!!
Since the port sunlight run I had twisted/sprained / done
something to m y leg so I had been unable to train fully. However as this was
my dream race and one I had be working towards I decided to go for it anyway. Even
if I did end up walking for periods of it!
It was a very hot and sunny day, and with little sleep the night before due to
the mother snoring, I set out, this was the first race I had done where the
start and finish line were in different places so my mum left me at the start
so she could then find me at the finish. But I think because of this the
atmosphere was different at the start,
there also wasn’t a warm up, which in ‘real’ runs rather than fun runs
there doesn’t seem to be, which I find quite interesting..
I managed to run almost to the end of the tunnel before I had
to begin walking, with the steep emergency exit almost killing me. The heat was
intense in the tunnel, which I wasn’t expecting, but I did manage to take a
tunnel selfie, [maybe if I took less pictures I would have run faster… hmm]
I got to the 5k
marker in 34minutes. Just things went downhill from there and ended up with a
running time of 1hour and 19mins, but you know, who cares at the end of the
day. I had an amazing time and meet a couple of great people, hopefully one day I will be at an hour but I’m
happy being able to achieve what I can and in doing so, got something ticked
off the bucket list.
I now plan to attempt to train properly for the next 10k, but in the meantime just enjoy myself. After all, the only person I have to beat is myself.
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