As I am sure you are bored of being told, we had a fab HU meet up in Portsmouth over the weekend. A chance to catch up on the news our very active What’sApp group might have missed and for other halves to socialise while waiting for us to get back. Oh yes, and to run a lovely 10 mile race. Unfortunately Mr S has got a stinky cold so decided to keep his germs to himself, leaving me to drive the 220 miles each way (hard work yesterday afternoon 🥱). I had booked a really great hotel too!
Right up until about 10 days ago, I had been debating whether to pull out due to my piriformis problem, but, in the end, the FOMO overtook the pain and I lined up at 11.00am for my 4th GSR. The weather was absolutely perfect, cool, sunny with barely any wind. Although I knew my time wouldn’t be as good as previous years, the first 5 miles went quite well and I was on track to complete in just under 2 hours at around 11.30 per mile. Then at mile 6 I had to slow down as my leg was starting to ache and by mile 8 it was really hurting so I went into walk/slow run mode as recommended by my physio and my pace dropped to almost 14 mins. However, I crossed the line in 2.08.50 and got my medal and t-shirt 😃😃 So glad I went. It was lovely to see everyone. Congrats to you all on great runs (despite injuries in some cases) and special mention to UpTheStanley on his lifetime PB and Oldgirlruns for smashing her target time 👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻