Yay!!!!
Yesterday, my husband (Phil) and I walked The Great South Run!!! We did it in 2:23:51 which was well inside our target time of 2:30. I was sooooooo chuffed. And what was nice was that at the end we didn’t feel “Oh God, couldn’t have walked another step” which is great, in preparation for my walking the London Marathon in 6 months time! It is doable!!! Yay!
The sun shone which was just wonderful (first time in a number of years on that race! Lol! The last two that I have run it has peeeeed down!). It was a tad windy over the last two miles as it goes along the coastal road of Southsea, and generally you are always going into the wind on that stretch. We jogged the first 800 meters just to get out of peoples way, and then we jogged the last 800 meters. AND THE HIP FELT FINE!!!!!!!!
My rectus femoris feels a little tight this morning but I have told it that that is fine – it is allowed to! But apart from that NO PAIN!
It was just sooooooo brilliant to be a part of it all again – the atmosphere was wonderful. I carried a balloon with ’47 Today’ written on it and on my back I had a ‘blurb’ as to why I was walking. I got so many wishes of Happy Birthday and “Good on you” etc. it was wonderful. So encouraging! I was grinning from ear to ear. I have never shared my birthday with 21,000 but it was a great way to do it!
Can’t wait for next year when I intend to run it!
Congratulations, what an achievement!! And Hippy Happy Hoppy BIrthday 😀 Will be thinking of you this week …