Great run last night with the slow group of Ledbury Running club. With the lighter nights we were able to go a bit further and run back using the unlit cycle paths.
All in all, much more pleasant than sunday.
Hugh Peachey has also signed up and is running with me (two days after his 40th). He has emailed asking if he should have a full body wax to avoid chafing ! not an image i needed.
Pleased to see that Barack Obama is also turning out to greet us in France - http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/barackobama/5054962/Barack-Obama-to-mark-D-Day-in-France.html
He must have heard Hugh and I were running !
Ran for two hours on sunday morning along the South West Coast Path between Lyme Regis and Seaton and return.
Although the sun was out and the setting beautiful, it wasn't a very pleasant run, in that I am clearly not fit enough, was slightly hungover, had a cold (I could go on). I got a little lost and at the end of the run had to climb up from the undercliffs through a hawthorn hedge which has left me pretty scratched.
Spent the rest of the morning mooching about with India in Lyme Regis and watching someone balancing stones.
a little hectic, but i am sure it will settle down, i took a quick inventory of what kind of shape I am in. Not good - I have a cold, my knees are sore, my back hurts and i have torn a hamstring.
So business as usual, I will try to ignore them (zinnia says no chance, I am only happy when moaning !)
Training this week has been:
sunday: adventure race in cumbria, 10km run, 20Km mountain bike and 1km canoe - we hardly covered ourselves in glory but we did get round - www.outside-adventure.co.uk/blog
tuesday: 45 min run
wed: 1hour swim - I am also training to swim to the isle of wight in july, so will be needing to increase my swimming times as well
thursday: 1 hour run, forgot my headtorch so was slow an awkward at 9.30pm
friday: 45 min run
on a brighter note, all the flowers are coming out, spring has definitely arrived and herefordshire looks wonderfull.
Link to short video about the race on BBC news: http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/7968571.stm
On the 4th June I am taking part in a 65mile run for Project65.
Why ? I hadn't planned on doing any runs this year but as my mum phoned and asked me I thought I best oblige. I feel very privileged to be able to take part in this event. My stepfather Bill is an ex para-trooper and has not been too well recently, this event has really fired his imagination and he has already supported me by paying my entrance fee.
Both my parents were in the forces and my stepfather's brother was a pilot who died in the war so I am delighted to be involved in the D Day commemoration.
"They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old;Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn.At the going down of the sun and in the morningWe will remember them."
What's it for ? "PROJECT 65 is commemorating the 65th Anniversary of D-Day by organising an historic 65mile ultra-run following the route that men from 52nd Oxf and Bucks LI, under the command of Major John Howard, took from a small airfield in the heart of the Dorset countryside to their objective in occupied France; two vital bridges over the Orne River and Caen Canal now known as Horsa and Pegasus Bridges. This operation was the very spearhead of the largest invasion in history - D-DAY.
The PROJECT 65 'Run to Pegasus' is being designed to replicate this remarkable mission man-for-man as each of the 200 runners will be representing a member of the Coup de Main force of 1944. The run will begin at 1400 on Thursday 4th June 2009 and follow a route through towns and villages including Ringwood, Lyndhurst, Southampton and finally Portsmouth. The runners are expected to arrive in Portsmouth at 1200 on Friday 5th June 2009 ready to board the ferry to Normandy. After the 6 hour crossing to France, the running group will assemble into 6 Glider groups and run the final 3 miles along the Caen Canal towpath to arrive on Pegasus Bridge at precisely 0016, the very minute that Glider no.1 crashed through the barb-wire defenses exactly 65 years before"
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