Can I manage ‘Not The Roman XI’? Are my knees are up to 12k?
There’s only one way to find out I suppose. L reassures me that she'll pick me up as she goes past.
We head to Stratford Upon Avon for the 11am start, which is
a long walk from the race HQ. I remember it well from when we were here a few
years back.
It’s hillier than I remember. Cough cough wheeze wheeze. I
walk several sections, partly as a precaution when my knee/calves come under
too much strain but also out of necessity when my lungs are ready to burst.
How did I become this unfit?
The upshot is that I cover the 12kms in 1:07:11 at a rate of
5:36 per km and finish 468th. In 2012, I completed it in 53:21 at 4:27
per km and came 148th. Compare and contrast. How the 'mighty' have
fallen.
We are meeting Son at around 3:30 in Leamington for lunch
and it’s now only around 1pm, so we hole up in a pub called the Lord Nelson in
Stratford for a while with the Sunday papers. A pleasantly odd pub with one random
local real ale.
When we head over to Son and go for lunch in The Duke. A sort
of modern craft ale bar without the craft ale and only one real ale - Bass,
which is rancid. Son sorts me out with something else as he knows the staff,
being part of the management of another bar in the same group.
The beer may be naff but the Sunday lunch was pretty good.
(Sunday 18th January)
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