The Langdale Half Marathon has a bit of a reputation – it includes serious hills. But it does mean that any other Half should feel relatively easy!
Sadly, the day did not start well.
1. I forgot my contact lenses – though luckily I found I had my emergency glasses; they are an old presecription but at least I could see where I was going. Or would have been able to except that:
2. The weather forcast was for sunshine – but in fact the rain was tanking down;
3. Emergency glasses do not have Elton John-style windscreen wipers. On the plus side, I did not get distracted by views: there weren’t any!
4. Started with an aching arch – never mind, as other things start to hurt, you forget whatever the previous pain was….
Somewhat to my surprise, as you can see from the following photo I actually enjoyed the whole thing, once I had got used to water dripping off my nose, chin, elbows… After the first few minutes I could not have got any wetter.
And of course I have yet another T-shirt to add to my collection. 🙂
Well done for even starting in such horrible weather. Was Ian in the cake shop keeping dry until you returned? 😛 😛
He was in the Stickle Barn pub! But ventured out in time to take the finish photo 🙂
Congratulations Anna, a half marathon with serious hills and rain “tanking down” (another new expression in my “rain collection”) is quite a performance! Hope you had some cakes afterwards, you certainly deserved them.
Yeah, the Brits are like the Eskimos, except they have dozens of ways to describe rain not snow… :sarcy:
BUGGER!!! 😯 😯 😯 Just looked at the results of the half marathon and realised that Anna WON her class (on the day I thought she’d come second) We left before prize giving.. 😥 😥 A total failure of the support team 😳 😳 😳
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Doh. Well, I guess one dosen’t take part for the prizes.
You’re right… it’s for the GLORY of the applause!!!!
… and the fact that you can eat lots and lots of cake and not get lardy. 🙂 🙂
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