Just time to squeeze in a last chat-athon with Sarah before Christmas, at the Christmas Jubilee River Run with Running Miles powered by Phoenix.
It was a new route for me, along the Jubilee River near Slough. 5 laps made a marathon, and I found it a very nice place to run.
Met Sarah in the front carriage of the Elizabeth Line very very early (thank you Sarah for getting up at a completely unreasonable time of day, so we could be finished by lunch time so I could go to work in the afternoon!). We got off at Slough a bit after 7am, and realised that it was still dark, and we didn't have headtorches. Oh.
Happily, it soon got light. I say light, I mean relative to being in total darkness. The morning was drizzly and murky, and overwhelmingly grey. Storm Pia also seemed to have sent it's winds down south, making running one half of each lap very difficult, and the other half quite nice! Plus screaming into the wind is exceptionally good therapy, and irons out all wrinkles.
We had a lap and a bit of tough northern love with James (everyone's either first or second favourite northerner, subject to ongoing debate), which if I was of a more sensitive nature, would have given me a complex about being old, being too bendy, and serious cause for worry about my hair falling out. Fortunately, I am EQUALLY Northern (as proved by the figure below), and thus relatively unaffected by tough love such as this. Much northern love to you James, and thank you for some really fun miles!
Congratulations to Louise who ran her 100th marathon today, with guide runner Jon. Absolutely amazing!
Thanks Rik and Team Phoenix/Running Miles for an excellent morning. Merry Christmas one and all! ❤️💚❤️💚
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