Today was race day. It was a bit sad doing a race without supporters (Dad is the best cheerleader - he makes sure he knows the course and will pop up several times to cheer you on), but regardless it was fun. Though huge thanks to Darren for driving me out on such a horrible day and missing out from meeting up with Jeremy on xbox. Thanks hun! But like I said I said it was fun! Eventually. Did I mention we haven't had much rain here, until today that is!
Everyday last week was sunny, or at least had no rain, then of course look at the horrible grey picture for race day! As an aside I can really see how things flood badly here, it only started raining in the middle of last night, and all through the race course were huge puddles!
Anyway not only was it raining, but freezing cold. When I got out of the car ten minutes before the race (leaving it to the last possible minute) I have never been as cold before in my life. Well ok I'm sure I have, but that's the kind of thing that's hard to measure. The wind was bitingly cold. I had a t-shirt on and at the last minute decided on a long sleeved top underneath, I was very glad I did!
Anyway the run itself was brilliant. It was so cool, first you ran through the little town streets then the rest of it was nice wee country lanes. The really weird thing was it was a 10km race, so logically you'd assume you may have markers every kilometer or maybe every 2 km. Not so, the race had markers each mile! Luckily I knew about this before hand. I still thought it was funny. It does make sense though as a lot of runners would only be used to thinking and timing themselves in miles over here.
There were also 3 nice wee hills in the race. Having only ever done events in Christchurch before (which is flat!) I wasn't expecting that, and it was hard! But fun! I should try and add some hills into my training.
Now it's back to a warm home (and bath) a yummy lunch of nachos and an afternoon veg-ing out.
Hope everyone else had a nice weekend!
:)
Mindy
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