Sunday, March 13, 2005

Today involved an early start (considering it is Sunday) as David had signed up to take part in the official warm-up race for the London Marathon at Silverstone. Mid-morning found us and our friend Maz (who'd been roped in to keep me company while David was off running) at British Formula One Racing's HQ with 6,000 other runners; all ready to run just over 13 miles round the circuit.

Because of all the other stuff going on in David's world at the minute he has let the training slip a little bit over the last couple of weeks. He's still been out a couple of times a week but hasn't managed to get out on those extra runs he'd been hoping to. Because of this I think he was pretty worried about how well prepared he was for his first ever half marathon; especially when most of the people at the circuit looked liked they train 24 hours a day.

We watched David set off from the main grandstands and managed to see him among all the other runners. Sadly the same couldn't be said for the first time he passed by (at 3 miles) where, despite actively staring at the runners for 20 minutes, he slipped past without me noticing him. I have to admit I was a bit concerned that something had happened to him on the first lap and he was laying on a verge somewhere.

As it turned out he had a brilliant half-marathon debut and got round the course in just under two hours 10 minutes. When we saw him approaching the finish line I had to double check it was him as he was SPRINTING for the finishing line - I'd been expecting him to be crawling on hands and knees.

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