Brilliant morning in Hastings Race for life! Met up with two other C25Kers; Icandothis and Icandothistoo, which was really great!!
I started near to the front because I knew it was going to be muddy and I kept going really well, with lots of cheerers not surprisingly the motivation stays up! Sadly a girl collapsed in front of me at about 4k and I ran back to get a marshall whilst others put her into the recovery position. I continued on and as I reached the finishing line I looked up at the time and it was still saying 27 minutes something so I sprinted to get my personal best of 27.43 (I SO wanted to get under 28 minutes!)
I cheered Icandothis and Icandothistoo over the line and gave them a well desrved hug! and was really proud that we had done it!
I later cheered on a mother from my daughters school. She had lost her little daughter at the age of 7 and it did bring a tear to see her there as you can imagine.
Not your typical Sunday morning!
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Really well done! and fantastic finish time , I found my RFL such a moving event too....would'nt it be a wonderful thing to do a fund-raiser of some with other C25Kers in the future? maybe we can combine it with our meet up in September, i feel a message to admin coming on..
Excellent. What a fantastic finishing time. A pat on the back for helping the other lady and I wonder what your time would have been if you hadn't stopped!!?? But it's great that even though you did stop you still got a PB! Well done!
Excellent, TJ! You must have been FLYING to still get a PB after your detour! I'm soooo happy for you! And I'm very glad to see the girl recovered and finished...and that ICanDoThis (1&2) are both still running.
Love the idea of a "group" event....wouldn't I just HAVE to find passage to be there....
Ahhhh..it turns out that the course was 4.7k! (Icandothis garmin result!)Still, there was a lot of slowing down for mud and puddles, so does that count for .3k ?
Wow, well done you!!! That's an incredible time, especially as you stopped to help somebody Sounds like a great morning, and yes, they are very moving. Ours was cancelled as the route is under water and moved to September now.
I find my Garmin always shows up slightly short on my ParkRuns. it can be a bit out if you have sharp bends I believe as its only accurate to 5 metres or something.
I think I will! I managed to raise £200 with just a few emails too so that really gave me a sense of achievement I am SO looking forward to the half marathon now, but maybe not the training
Brilliant time TJ. Glad the girl you helped made it to the finish line. It is a very emotional event and so worthwhile. Good luck with the half marathon training.
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