Grand day out by the seaside. Not! 😀 I ran quite a disappointing race, and was only just over a minute faster than last year when I was poorly 🙄
However, I really enjoyed it in a masochist kind of way. This route seems interminable, and the finish line seemed never to arrive, so i just dug in and kept going. I do love the route though. It’s a barren, windswept seascape on part of the return leg and tough on the feet and legs. It’s single file too as runners sensibly stuck to the well-trodden narrow path. I fell in behind a bloke for protection from the wind 😁. I had to keep looking down at my feet but I ran in his footsteps for quite a while which was good 🏃♀️ The beach and dunes part is hard work at that late stage of the race but there was music and lots of support. It was designated SMILE zone 😁😁😁. The long slog to the seafront was helped by a drumming group, banging out a beat for tired legs to latch onto. Another short stretch of very slippery, dry sand, to get back onto the prom. The finish was near the very end of the prom, and on already tired legs, I was cursing the cruelty of the organisers for prolonging the agony 😫😤🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬.
my husband was trying to film my finish, but an official made him move so he could exit the course via the spectator barrier. So it was a damp squib at the end but all was forgiven when someone handed me a doughnut 😁🍩🙂. OMG a doughnut never tasted so good 🤤 😋
My ankle was throbbing by this time but I hobbled off to find a cafe, then back to the car for the drive home. I made dinner when I got home as I craved something wholesome. I made a vat of veg chilli 🌶 with melted cheese and a fried egg on top 🍳 Bloomin lush 👌😋
I’m suffering with my ankle today (swollen, tender Achilles 🫤) so no running but I’m going to keep moving. I spent time in the kitchen yesterday making bread, and a dinner of fish, chips and peas as I missed out at the seaside 🐋
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Wow that sounds a hard one MW! Love that tshirt and medal so pretty,sounds a bit like the coastal marathon they have on the mainland south coast here! You dug deep as always, you are one very determined lady. Glad you got the doughnut and veg chilli after sounds perfect! Congratulations 😁 💪😚xxx
Oh crikey that sounds positively gruelling, especially in the wind. Well done! A minute faster is a minute faster!!! Hope you enjoyed those fish and chips and that the achilles recovers fast 🙏
Rock hard running misswobble!! I feel knackered after reading your graphic account. Just when I thought it couldn’t get any harder it did! I keep getting a sore achilles/ ankle post run too. It goes away overnight; weird. Hope yours does not persist.👊🏆🥂
I don’t like pains close to the achilles because they can linger. Mine was gone by yesterday morning. I have given my ankles a bit of a wellying swimming crawl with flippers on today. Kill or cure I think!!
Intervals for me. There are some hill intervals in the programme, but they gave me tight hamstrings last time I tried them….stick to normal ones I think.
That was a feat of physical AND mental endurance! Congratulations 🏆 🥳🥳The sand and wind will also have done wonders for your skin, giving it an extra polish and glow! 😉😉
Oh, well done misswobble 👏👏- that does sound like a tough one (and we would expect nothing less from you!). I think if race organisers have to have a ‘designated smile zone’ then you know you’re running with the big boys!! 🤣
Enjoy your lovely bling and T-shirt and I hope your ankle settles soon. 🙂🏅
Loving that t shirt and medal, I particularly love the ones with birds or animals on them. I'm lucky enough to live very near the Yorkshire Wildlife Park, they hold a 10k and a 5k there every year. The 5k is in Oct, medal with a red panda on it 😍😍Really well done, that sounds a brutal course. I'm disappointed for you though that you didn't manage to get Cleggy fish and chips at the end (but the veggie chilli does sound yum 😋)
The red panda there are very entertaining! My small relative bought a furry one with his spending money and loves it very much 🥰 I had no idea they had races there 😀
I’m back there soon for my marathon so I’ll get me chippy tea then 😀
aww bless you for keep going, that sounded sooooooo hard, and I know that feeling when you're not happy with your finish time, but.......... you did it, that's the main thing. Tee shirt looks a very nice one! Hope the ankle feel better soon though, that sounds painful. Take care .🙌🤒
Using a bloke as a wind shield is a well known trick. Lovin’ it! You’ve done a good job under not so good circumstances, well done. I know people who’d simply quit there and then.
Good luck with the Achilles, those guys can be tricky customers. I’ve paused running and will be back this week after bashing my knees in the frisbee park fiasco a month ago. I can still touch the pain points and haven’t got the full range of movements. Oh well.
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