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Just a quick status update, both my GF and myself finished the GNR this weekend. Our time was 2 hrs 58 mins, admittedly 20 mins of that was a toilet stop with queues being awful and the GF being less than enthused at peeing in the bushes.
It was a good laugh and i thoroughly enjoyed it. We are discussing doing next years but want to recover a bit first before we commit. My worries of not being able to manage the whole distance where utterly unfounded as i felt like i could have managed a bit further on the day. Right now i am aching like hell, but then it was fine.
This year we did it for the local nhs trust (our employer) but they have been less than useless with support to the point where they contacted another Compo at the opposite end of the country for 9 months rather than me. I only got a t-shirt because they contacted the GF a week before to check her size and she asked me what i'd chosen. Next year we'll likely do it for MS charities as my GF has it. But thats future me's problem. For now its a few weeks off running before i start to train again. Next time i want closer to 2:40 or better, but we'll see.
And one of the GF friends asked if i want to try an ironman.... ummmm.