Col went and did the first of the summer league races today - I went for a lazy run with my friend this morning. The race is a nice route and being the first league race of the year its always popular. About half way round, and quite near to the front, Col was expecting to go up the grassy hill, but the runners in front of him carried on ahead, and so obviously he followed them, but it turns out that, up the grassy hill they should have gone, and the marshall only appeared after quite a few of them had run past. It shouldn't, hopefully make that much difference to people's times, the detour probably added a couple of 100 feet, and their route up the hill was less steep and less muddy, so all in all it probably equalled things out. Though the poor marshall who should have been in position must have felt terrible.
It reminded me of the time we did a half marathon, and the lead car that everybody was following, mistakenly added the mile fun run route to the beginning of the course - consequently the mile markers were all a mile out, and although me and Col worked out fairly quickly what had happened, I'd spent most of the course fretting that I might have to run 14 miles rather than 13 miles, but the poor organisers who most have watched the lead cars route in a mixture of horror and disbelief, had worked really hard to dismantle the very large inflatable finish tunnel and time, and resite it at the 13 mile mark - obviously and unfortunately there were quite a few runners that were unhappy with what had happened, but I was just so pleased that I didn't have to go the extra mile, and had been so impressed with how hard they'd worked to rectify everything in such a short space of time.
Jackie.
It reminded me of the time we did a half marathon, and the lead car that everybody was following, mistakenly added the mile fun run route to the beginning of the course - consequently the mile markers were all a mile out, and although me and Col worked out fairly quickly what had happened, I'd spent most of the course fretting that I might have to run 14 miles rather than 13 miles, but the poor organisers who most have watched the lead cars route in a mixture of horror and disbelief, had worked really hard to dismantle the very large inflatable finish tunnel and time, and resite it at the 13 mile mark - obviously and unfortunately there were quite a few runners that were unhappy with what had happened, but I was just so pleased that I didn't have to go the extra mile, and had been so impressed with how hard they'd worked to rectify everything in such a short space of time.
Jackie.
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