- Time Mabel went to sleep last night: 9.30 pm
- Time Mabel woke up last night: 2.30 am (that's actually quite good, you know)
- Time it felt like it took to get her back to sleep: 2 hours, give or take (that's not good)
- Time somebody decided to ring our phone before changing their mind: 5.15 am
- Time I actually got up: 6.45 am
- Amount I felt like running a race: Not even a little bit
- Time I left the house: 7.10 am
- Time spent loitering around once I'd attached my number to my t-shirt with safety pins and my chip to my shoe: 30 minutes
- Time the race started: 8 am
- Number of runners who streaked ahead of me very quickly: Most of them
- Number of walkers still behind me: A few, I hope
- Number of runners who passed me clearly already on their second lap while I was still completing my first: About 6
- Number of times we went around the lake: 2
- Number of fluffy ducklings I saw: 6
- Number of chipmunks who dashed across my path: 1
- Number of toddlers who mistakenly thought I might be their mama: 1
- Number of times I did not stop running: Any
- That is, because the former seems ambiguous, amount I walked: 0 cm, inches, meters, rods, poles or perches
- Number of family members I was delighted to see as I rounded the final bend: All 3 lovelies
- Amount I was surprised to find I could speed up to make a big finish: Quite a bit
- Number of kilometers I ran: 5, Baby
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| This is me approaching my waiting supporters (I don't know what the guy in the grey is doing, but he's going the wrong way.) |
Awesome! What an achievement!
ReplyDeleteCONGRATULATIONS! I really miss exercise but cannot get over feeling guilty about leaving the house. : (
ReplyDeleteFantastic!
ReplyDeleteWow! Congratulations! I'm impressed by the running, but more impressed by the doing of it in public in competition with speedier people. I prefer to do my pootling amoung the anonymous hoi poloi. And not so much of it these days, what with the gestating and all.
ReplyDeleteThanks, guys.
ReplyDeleteMiranda, yes, it was a bit of a blow to the ego to discover just how immensely geriatric my pace is. On the other hand, the fact that it was a race did seem to give me an extra boost - I'd never have bothered to finish the whole thing if it had just been a regular run. Maybe I'll make an effort and see if I can up my speed just a smidgen.