• Feeling a bit less than 100% afterwards!

  • Encouraging Sabiene to a sprint finish

  • Andy approaches the finishing line

  • It's always good to get a medal even if all you have to do is finish!

  • Sabiene and Andy looking fairly happy at the start

First Race!

With some difficulty I persuaded Sabiene that she had been running long enough to enter a race. Andy took less convincing and, with Ian as our support team and coat-holder, we went to Grasmere today.

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Sabiene and Andy looking fairly happy at the start

To my relief I managed to get home before both Andy and Sabiene and after I had collected my medal….

It's always good to get a medal even if all you have to do is finish!

… I was able to encourage each of them to manage a final sprint.

Andy approaches the finishing line

He achieved 59 minutes 🙂 🙂

Encouraging Sabiene to a sprint finish

Sabiene was certain that she would be last back, but far from it: she managed a creditable 63 minutes. But she had put in a lot of effort:

Feeling a bit less than 100% afterwards!

4 thoughts on “First Race!”

  1. A great effort by everybody, over a difficult course. It looked (from the cake stall :yum: ) to be much hillier than the Langdale race. Anna was 3rd in her class 😯 There were 250 runners and Anna, Andy and Sabiene were all way up the finishing list. 🙂

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