Sunday, 11 April 2010

2 out of 3 ain't bad ?

A bit of Meatloaf from the classic "Bat out of Hell" album

Why such a title I hear you asking ? well because that describes my marathon performances this month. Today was the highlight of the 3, I went round the Taunton marathon marathon today in a season's best of 3.42.27 running with the speedy Paul A.

The 2 out of 3 would the 2 sub 4 hour marathons today & Good Friday at the Enigma the third one being the less than impressive almost 6 hours it took to get round the Bath Beat Marathon yesterday.

The song came on Mr Ross' ipod on the way home & I thought perfect the song also reminds me of the fact I played it to an ex girlfriend many years ago just after we had split up in a vain hope of winning her back & as I'm sure you'll guess it didn't work. (The fox wasn't always the super smooth creature you now know lol !!!)

The race today semmed very much a half marathon with a marathon "bolted" on to it - the facilities at the start & finish were excellent there was chip timing a bling medal & pretty good t-shirt. The first lap was packed with runners doing both events & the second lap felt as though we had been abandoned out there & the traffic especially up the hill around mile 23 was a bit dangerous to tell the truth. The course weaved through some lovely little villages & Paul managed to drag me back from the tempation of some lovely looking country boozers

They've just text me my time - that's a good feature

I started to stuggled around 17 miles & was on the verge of telling Paul to go as I was starting to struggle but just hung in about 20 yards behind him & found a new lease of life at about 22 miles as Paul struggled a bit himself but between us we kept each other going & picked each other up when the going got tough, at 25 miles Mr A suddenly became a gazelle again lengthing his stride & taking the shorter legged Fox with him. We passed 26 miles & with the finish in site I thanked him for his company & support & asked him "How are you're wings ?" & we bought it home with the trademark flying finish in tandem

Today's champagne moment undoubtably goes to my Wingman Paul - top drawer mate

Other songs passed over for today's title were the Isley brothers "Summer Breeze" as there was a gentle refreshing breeze on a rather warm day, "Everybody Hurts" by REM but then it didn't hurt quite as much as I anticipated & "allright now" by Free - things are improving a bit but they're not quite Allright !!

Keep on running

"the Flying fox" x

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