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Mar 20
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I moved my long run to Saturday this week so I could run with Team MC (Camilla and Nick, also joined by Ben, a friend of Nick’s) We headed off from Talacre at 9am ish. Once we had managed to navigate ourselves there and to the correct car park we geared up and set off. 2 and quarter laps made up the 20 miles. It was great to be able to chat along the way – the three hours passed at a good speed. Having the car was great for pit- stops on each lap. I had two gels (at 50minute intervals) two hand bottle carriers of water and then half a banana and a jaffa cake at our first pit-stop. Our pace was comfortable, averaging around 9:10 min miles – slow enough to talk comfortably, but by mile 17 talking had all but halted. The end was in sight, and exhaustion had begun to set in for all of us.
We saw several deer, a stag, lots of dogs, struggled up the hills into the wind, ran alongside a guy with pink leg warmers and hurt when we stopped.
Loud 80’s power ballads and smarties cookies got us through the traffic jams on the way back home. Getting out of the car was tough.
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