A cheeky wee marathon weekend at the end of a holiday!
Friday was the "Thank Phoenix It's Friday" event, and was the blue bridge route. This is normally my very favourite route, but today there was a sponsored walk on, and about a thousand kids from a local school walking up and down, which made for a less peaceful than usual Friday run. Anyway, it's still Friday, still not at work, and still running, so it's all good! Plus, it involved a lot of interval running, dodging past everyone, so managed the first half in just over 2 hours, which was quite fun. Then my legs had something to say (very rude, unrepeatable here) about doing this after last weekend, so the second half was a bit more sedate, and involved employment of the "Shrimp Technique" (see last week's post!) each lap, to get to the end. Thanks Andrew for the run, plus lots of running friends were out and about, and the local cockerel was also out for his morning walk. Saw six swans take off all at once from the river, which caused quite a cacophony. Found that Amazon Prime deliver to the house boats. Lovely and sunny until the last lap when it started to rain, and then it poured for the rest of the afternoon. Finished my second round of 52 marathons in 52 weeks (two weeks faster than last time!). Love the medal!
Today was the Phoenix "Spring Marathon". Thanks Sarah and Andrew for another chat-athon! All our legs had some words for us today, so we got each other round - thanks team! The Shrimp/ pretzel/ Freddo techniques were made good use of today, for sure. Good turn out today, and great to catch up with many friends on the way round! It was the little Hampton Court loop today, which was nice and muddy after all the rain. And an extra bonus couple of laps of rain too at the very beginning, which was nice and refreshing, rather than being horrible and miserable; the weather is definitely turning milder. Fortunately, I had put the lid on my kit box, and put it under cover, so there were no stupid wet kit box moments today. Gorgeous daffodils out along the lock, and blossoms coming out all along the route too. Spring is in the air. Andrew sat on a bench by the lock to take of his shoe as there was something in it (as well as his foot), just a a boat called "Foot Loose" came out of the lock. Sang "sitting on the dock of the BAY". To the Weir afterwards for soup of the day (or, soup of two days) and catch ups.
Thanks Rik and Phoenix for another fantastic double event! Well done to all runners! And thanks to Andrew and Sarah for the miles and smiles!
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