Having had YET ANOTHER cold all week and still my niggling hip, I haven't run since Tuesday. If you read my Tuesday blog, you'll see that I mentioned the strange things which happened but these now make sense as they appear to have been the beginning of my cold. My running has not been very consistent recently but hopefully once I shift this cold, I'll be able to get back into some decent training. My hip is definitely feeling better, although it did play up a bit on today's easy run.
I met Ed Swift at the barn at 8.30 this morning and we set off up to Two Lads. I could tell straight away that I wasn't over my cold as I was struggling to talk and run right from the start. Still, luckily for me, Ed was holding back as he was doing Pike Race in the afternoon, so we ran/walked up the hills which suited me just fine. It wasn't until leaving Two Lads and heading up the mast road that I decided I'd had enough. I was getting quite wheezy and, despite wanting to get a decent distance in to burn off my Easter eggs in advance, I knew it was best to turn back and head home and try another run tomorrow. I turned round just before the mast, leaving Ed to head to the trig point and then across the newly flagged route to the Pike as he hadn't checked this out properly since it had been done.
I headed back down the mast road, back up to Two Lads and then home via the side of Wilderswood.
Total distance - 5.3 miles
Later on today I helped out with the Pike Race. Yet again I found myself not running it, despite wanting to every year. I have decided to make it my main focus of training for the next year. I'm determined to do it next year and to do it well. Having looked at other people's times, I want to aim for under 27 minutes.
I had a job which required a lot of responsibility today - timing! I'm not going to lie, I was pretty nervous about doing it. We have a new device now which makes it much easier though, so all I had to do was press start when the race began and then every time a runner crossed the finish line I just had to press a big red button and this then printed out their time on a roll of paper which was then tallied up with the numbers taken by Suzanne at the other end of the finish funnel. Ali and Martyn did manual timing too just in case there was a problem with the new device and Martyn and I kept trying to palm the responsibility off onto each other, 'arguing' which method was the main one and which was the back up. It was all in high spirits though and it was a good job we had both methods as it got pretty hectic at one point with the finish funnel backing up so much that the runners coming in thick and fast couldn't cross the finish line.
After the race it was off to the pub for a few beers. It's funny because I thought when I saw everyone doing the race I would feel jealous that I wasn't doing it but I didn't and I really enjoyed doing the timing instead, which will make it difficult next year as I'll probably want to do the timing again instead of running it!
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