It was a crisp, cold and icy morning when I picked up TailChaser and we headed to Warwick Racecourse. There was an NHS testing centre set up in the car park and the frozen attendants were very confused when we said we were looking for reindeer. Anyway we soon parked and heading for registration where we joined many more people giggling their way into costume. At 10am about 200 reindeer were on the start line in the bright sunshine doing warm up exercises with a lady dressed as a carrot.
It was 3 laps and the regular dog walkers were all smiling as this long parade of reindeer made its way around the course. It was supposed to be 7.5km but my watch recorded nearly 8km and there was a cheeky little hill half a km before the end of lap that slowed me to a walk on the 2nd and 3rd laps. Tailchaser was going well and had kindly offered to go slow enough to stay with me, but with so many people all dressed alike it was difficult to keep tabs on each other’s whereabouts, so she was often seen heading back the wrong way to find me. Medals, water, bananas and mince pies waited for us as we crossed the finish line.
It was very silly, but also lots of fun!
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