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The result of 'the bad idea' ...

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wez70Half Marathon
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Well chaps, the fact I'm writing means at least I'm here to tell the tale ...

After deciding to do the Great Eastern HM despite no real training due to life getting in the way, I managed to get round in 2:38 ... I had to run/walk from 13k but I got a couple of km further than my longest training run so decided to accept the fact and finish at least on my feet! The weather was dry and warmer than ideal (stop moaning!) and although my running companion deserted me at 5k with another colleague who joined us on the spur of the moment with allegedly no intention of aiming for a time (they completed in 2:20, no walking, so it is clear that she is actually a whippet, not a beginner as she claimed when she said she was REALLY slow ... hmmm) I somehow got through. At one point, the 2:30 pacers reached me and I thought I could stick with them and equal last years time but it was not to be ... and at one particularly low point I was overtaken by a mobility scooter, but I have to say, she had her foot down *ahem* ... anyway, made it home, medal collected, can barely move today with hideous sciatic pain in both hips, buttocks and legs but at least I got up and gave it a go ... I shall prepare properly for my next one, and yes, already I know there will be a next one, which is something to celebrate. Hope anyone else doing the mad things over the weekend fared well and isn't too battered and bruised!

Ironically enough, walking back to the car park with hubs and brother in law, I had to utilise my nursing skills (rusty as been a midwife for last 17 years) to assist in another mobility scooter related incident ... walking along and heard an almighty crunch then crash noise behind us coupled with human wailing noises ... some poor sod who was behind us on a bridge, trying to cross the road at some traffic lights had been mowed down by another scooter without a hooter ... the 'driver' proclaiming wildly that she hadn't seen the pedestrian and he had 'come out of nowhere' ... I checked he was alive, hadn't broken anything or bashed his head, checked his not insignificant injuries, retrieved his lost shoe that had been yanked off in the tussle with her front wheels and helped him call for assistance from his mate as luckily he lived a few hundred metres away ... I helped him limp home as his mate carried the shopping bags (they were loaded with beer so probably precious cargo judging by a number of other things I noted and feel that some of the distress was due to a couple of broken ones in there!) and then I was able to go home. I hope he didn't mind being scooped up by the sweaty mess that I was at the time but guess we can't be too choosy sometimes ;-)

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benwill profile image
benwillMarathon

Well done you, sounds like you did great and my medical expertise sounds like it was spot on this time :)

Madge50 profile image
Madge50Marathon

Them mobility scooters are a flippin’ hazard! I nearly got ‘run’ down by one early on in my C25K career, hurtling along behind me he was, no hooter or anything, it was only thanks to a pedestrian coming the other way who gestured to me to look out that I managed to dodge out the way before he came flying past me!

Anyway, we’ll done on the HM, it certainly was a day for it yesterday, fantastic time, I hope you’re really pleased, you should be 🤗 , you went, you joined in, you did, 🏅👍

Mx

C3PO profile image
C3POMarathon

Congratulations! With a time like that despite walk/running from 13K onwards, you must have been running really fast. And how lucky for that pedestrian that you were there to help!

skysue16 profile image
skysue16Half Marathon

Well done 😀 you did really well especially considering the difficulties you had with training.

Tomas profile image
TomasMarathon

Well done you, that's a great achievement, particularly considering the training issues. Congratulations!

PippiRuns profile image
PippiRuns

If you had finished faster, you wouldn’t have been around to help the pedestrian. Good thing you chose to walk-run the last third.

You did really well and it’s great that you are already planning to register for another. Way to go you!

AncientMum profile image
AncientMumHalf Marathon

Well done Wez, that was a great time for a run/walk. :)

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