Only a 10k race 🥵🥵🥵🥵🥵

[Katnap]

ONLY!

Today was really hot. And here in the UK we have not had a general improvement in weather and easing into summer conditions. No no. We jumped from Winter to Summer. I'm sure we can get some sympathy from Decker as I've heard it said in Canada they have 2 seasons: winter and roadworks 🤣

We had a HU actual RB meet up at the Cheltenham Running Festival held at the racecourse. Shake-and-run had picked up a niggle so changed from the planned 10k to a 5k. I think we may have been a touch envious as the rest of us Sandie1961 cheekychipmunks TailChaser and myself hauled ourselves around for a 2nd circuit! I was definitely dousing myself with water more than I was drinking it. We all deserved that bling! And post race prosecco 🥂

Haven't got our chip times yet but Strava reckoned I did 10k in 48m33s with a 'relative effort' of 151. But the best of it was all the smiles and runner's camaraderie. 🤣 It always feels better AFTER the race 😂

More real racing please!

🐱 Katnap 🐱

[RunaroundSue]

Well done, glad you all had a good time

[Katnap Marathon in reply to RunaroundSue]

Looking forward to having excuses for more HU meet ups!

[Oldfloss Administrator]

Absolutely incredible.. well done you...and all!!!I was too hot today...and all I was doing was sitting on the floor potting tomato plants on!!!

Just fabulous xxx

[Katnap Marathon in reply to Oldfloss]

We were missing a 'hose station' for sure!

[TailChaser Marathon in reply to Katnap]

Oh wouldn't it have been nice to have spectators armed with water pistols 🥵

[SueAppleRun 10 Miles]

It’s so good to read about real races

[Katnap Marathon in reply to SueAppleRun]

Hooray for summer!

[linda9389 Administrator Marathon]

Sounds fabulous - and you were most certainly on fire!!!

[Katnap Marathon in reply to linda9389]

I was suitability warmed up (heart rate). No going up through all the zones!

HR zones

[lexi6 10 Miles]

Fantastic! what a great meet up and a lovely medal to go with as well 👍

[Katnap Marathon in reply to lexi6]

It was great to be doing something that was a close echo to pre pandemic activities! 👍🐱👍

[Sandraj39 Half Marathon]

Well done to all of you, especially in this heat! 🥵👏👏And wow - what an amazing time!💪🙂

[Katnap Marathon in reply to Sandraj39]

For the effort involved on that run we would normally get better times. Everyone did brilliant 👏👏👏👏👏

[Decker Ultramarathon]

Sounds just great Katnap. Yes I can certainly sympathize. It’s been so hot today and no rain in sight. You really earned your bling today. Huge congrats to everyone out there. Here’s to real races !👏👏

[Katnap Marathon in reply to Decker]

Hear hear!

[Dexy5 10 Miles]

Well done you lovely lot. Sorry we weren’t able to join you today, but we were quite relieved to not be running in 30C. That bling should take pride of place.

[Katnap Marathon in reply to Dexy5]

No need to apologise. There's always next time!

[AlMorr Half Marathon]

Congratulations to you Katnap for running in the heat and a sub 50 minutes 10K in those conditions makes it more enjoyable, you deserve that lovely medal 🥉 🥉👍

[Katnap Marathon in reply to AlMorr]

Thanks Al!

[BaddieThePirate]

Well done on a good race run, and a super race time. Very speedy 🏅🥂

[Katnap Marathon in reply to BaddieThePirate]

Thanks Baddie 🐱👍

[Dups Half Marathon]

Well done to you all in that heat 🥵Amazing times. Congratulations 😊

[Katnap Marathon in reply to Dups]

Cheers Dups!

[cheekychipmunks Half Marathon]

Wasn’t it fun Katnap? I was definitely a whole 10 minutes plus slower than I expected, but I was 7 minutes faster than my scorching Severn Bridge 10k in 2019! I’m happy with our efforts. HUers are clearly hardcore (or bonkers!) 😅

[Katnap Marathon in reply to cheekychipmunks]

Deffo hardcore bonkers 😃😅😂🤣

[Dexy5 10 Miles in reply to cheekychipmunks]

Wonderful cheekychipmunks, and how did the course compare with Kempton Racecourse? Apart from the temperature of course.

[cheekychipmunks Half Marathon in reply to Dexy5]

Thanks Dexy. It was much more undulating than Kempton. No steep hills, but each lap had at least 3 longish inclines which were fine over one lap, but brutal for two, especially as the temperature was rising and the wind was dropping. It’s in a beautiful setting. 😍

[Beatlesforever]

Brilliantly done!! 🎉💪👏👏👏 It's great to see actual events happening again, my friend did a half marathon near here on Sunday yay 😃 very well done you and everyone racing this weekend in the UK, we've really gone from winter to summer overnight 🥵🥵

[Katnap Marathon in reply to Beatlesforever]

I can finally get my woolly hat washed!

[JonathanP 10 Miles]

Well done all - a fantastic effort in that heat!

[Katnap Marathon in reply to JonathanP]

Thanks JP 🐱

[Sandie1961 Half Marathon]

Reduced numbers, baking hot, 6 minutes slower than my worst anticipated time, but do I care? Nope! Fantastic meet up and such a joy to be back with other runners doing a real race 😃😃😃

[Katnap Marathon in reply to Sandie1961]

Too true!

[SkiMonday Ultramarathon]

That's a cracking pace, especially in the heat, well done!

Were you running on tarmac?

[Katnap Marathon in reply to SkiMonday]

Thanks SkiMonday 👍

[Katnap Marathon in reply to SkiMonday]

The course was mixed surfaces but mostly tarmac 👍

[TailChaser Marathon]

You were amazing Katnap 🥰

And you had a heart rate that I didn't feel envious of! However, my relative effort was vastly superior to yours 😅, thanks partly to my watch getting upset from getting wet (either from sweat or water) was 234 😱 as was my heart rate: it only went as high as 190 apparently, a little less than when I started (not)parkrun on Saturday morning (203)... just as well I don't believe it or I wouldn't have left the house all weekend!

More proper races please!

[cheekychipmunks Half Marathon in reply to TailChaser]

Just checked my relative effort - 65! Cheers! 😩 Something tells me that Strava doesn’t understand my reptilian HR (max during the race was 119). Surely the wildly positive splits are an indication that it was hard work! 😅

[TailChaser Marathon in reply to cheekychipmunks]

Really? I get that walking in to town and back 🤣 We should have swapped watches on Sunday!!

[cheekychipmunks Half Marathon in reply to TailChaser]

🤣🤣🤣

[Irish-John Marathon]

Congratulations

[Katnap Marathon in reply to Irish-John]

🐱👍

[RunBrianRun Half Marathon]

I missed this. Seriously well done to you all!! Fabulous efforts all round. 👏👏👏

[Katnap Marathon in reply to RunBrianRun]

Ta! 👍🐱👍