After suffering cancellations and the meagre consolation of a virtual race in October 2020, the Vitality London 10000 was back yesterday. A bunch of us travelled down (or up in the case of those on the south coast) to Waterloo on Sunday, all meeting up for the first time since last October and had a convivial evening before making our way across the river yesterday morning to Green Park and the bag drop. By great luck, cheekychipmunks , Shake-and-run and I reached the start line just as the elite runners were about to start and saw the great Sir Mo Farah and the amazing Eilish McColgan start their races. We subsequently made our way to the start line on the Mall and, at a slightly slower pace 😂, set off, along with nearly 14000 other runners, to run through Trafalgar Square, down the Strand and past so many iconic London landmarks. There were bands playing, choirs singing, spectators cheering us on around the route and the atmosphere was amazing. The finish was in front of Buckingham Palace, before collecting t-shirt and medal and meeting back up with Cheeky, Shakes, Dexy5 UpTheStanley TailChaser Katnap and kitten and -David-G . I’m not sure what happened with Garmin (possibly hindered by high buildings 🤷♀️) but I managed to clock up 11.14k on a measured 10k route and got 7 PBs including a 58.17 10k, which sadly isn’t accurate as my official time was 1.06.04, 142/360 in my age group. The icing on the cake for me was meeting up with my son and his girlfriend for dinner. What a fabulous weekend 😃😃
Hello London, only 2 years late 🏃♀️ - Bridge to 10K
Hello London, only 2 years late 🏃♀️
Sounds perfect Sandie. You will get that sub 60 10k one day, that is, if you want it. Top half of your age group is excellent. 👍
To be honest, I don’t really care if I do or not. It would be nice, but the best part was meeting up with friends and running in such a fantastic race. Just watching it on tv and the excitement is there again!
It was a brilliant weekend Sandie 😍 I love that photo of you and Shakes!
Well done Sandie1961 - another fab run report! The meet up sounds great and what a fantastic event this is. There was definitely a stellar elite race too - I think Mo Farah ran it when I did it a few years back as well. Don’t you just love saying you ran against Mo Farah…!😂😂Lovely that you were also able to celebrate with your son and his partner afterwards too! 🙂👏🏅
The trouble is, Mo had finished before we started running Sandra. 🤣🤣
It was fabulous and worth the wait in the end 😃😃
All the sights and sounds somehow distract you and suck you along! Well done Sandie!
🐱 Katnap 🐱
Well done to you Kats too. Just fantastic 🥳🥳
Sounds great Sandie - and Mr Garmin was trying to give you an even better day!😀
Thanks 😊 Ah, if only it was true! I don’t really care. It was such a fabulous event.
Fabulous. Sounds like it was an amazing experience. You’re easily in the top half of your age group, which is excellent. Well done.
It was such a brilliant event, so well organised and I can say I ran with Mo Farah (even though he’d finished while I was still in the loo queue 😂)
Funky Garmin and Strava, but who cares? You ran an excellent race in a great time Sandie! 💥💥
What a fabulous weekend, and I’m happy you got to see your son too. ❤️
It was definitely the high point of the year so far. Amazing! Having the ‘gang’ back together was very special too 😃
And what a gang! 🥰
GPS trackers really struggle with what are termed "urban canyons" between high-sided city buildings.
Well done!
Absolutely Fabulous Sandie! And you got to be on the TV! You moved so fast in the first 200 metres that I thought you’d be just a blur.
Something definitely happened to GPS in the City area as Garmin told me I was going 5.20 min/km at one point. Nah.
So lovely to have some quality time with your family afterwards too- I hope you wore your medal!
I thought you’d never get out of that chair..😂😂
Not my most elegant moment 😂😂
Glad you had a great weekend with the meetups and the run.
Thank you 😊 It was amazing! Congratulations on MK 🥳👏🏻
Oh lovely! Elite runners, a trip to London, friends and family….. all in the name of running, congratulations for being in top half too 😀🎉🍾🎈
Summed it up beautifully 🤩 Next stop Great South Run, unless we can find something sooner!
Darn it, I so want to do that one, maybe next year, once I retire
It’ll be my 3rd this year. 10 miles is a nice distance - so much more achievable than HM but feels like you’ve run a good distance. GSR also has the advantage of being flat 😃
Well done, sounds like a fantastic experience, both the excitement leading upto it and the race itself. Can't wait to do my first race. I'd like to do the Lincoln 10km, trying to find out when it is.😃🏃♀️
I’ve done several 10k races, but this was just in another league altogether. I’m waiting for Lincoln too, as it’s my home run, but I haven’t been able to find a date for this year yet!
I thought I'd missed it. If you hear can you let me know and I'll do the same to you. 😄🏃♀️
Glad to 😃
I’m so glad you enjoyed the run Sandie! And a little extra too! It really sounds as though you all enjoyed your meet up - Dexy5 was still buzzing when I saw her yesterday!
It was absolutely brilliant. I’m still buzzing too 😃
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