Well done - I'm very impressed by anyone who can run further than I can. Which is to say, I'm very impressed by most people who can run. The furthest I've ever run without stopping is 5 miles, and that took me nearly an hour.
Bob > > I had my second half-marathon race this morning. Last week's > race was very hilly; this week was pretty much flat but on > roughish ground, and my official time for today was 1:50:03. > > The race was a pretty hard one; the first 10km was run into a > head wind and I had a little muscle pain to deal with, > undoubtedly a bit of a hangover from last week. A couple of > km after we turned around, that nice tail wind dropped off. Sod it. > > For most of the race I was keeping an eye on my pace thinking > I was doing terribly but I was bitten once again by my > complete inability to perform basic mathematics while running > and I was actually going a bit quicker than I thought. > > The event was sponsored by a winery and most of the running > was through vineyards with quite a bit of that going down > between the grape vines. Most of them had been harvested > already so I didn't do any sampling. As a bonus everyone was > given a bottle of wine after finishing. That's pretty good > considering they had about 1700 entrants. > > I just entered for another half marathon in my home town in > early June. For only $15 I could have super-sized to a full > marathon but I'm not quite ready for that :) > > We're staying in Hanmer Springs tonight so tomorrow I'm going > to try and take a couple of decent photos from my favourite > part of last week's course. > > Cheers, > Dave -- PDML Pentax-Discuss Mail List [email protected] http://pdml.net/mailman/listinfo/pdml_pdml.net to UNSUBSCRIBE from the PDML, please visit the link directly above and follow the directions.
