A short while ago I spotted the Ron Hill Sale Sizzler 5k race and having met the man himself at a previous run thought we'd give it a go. The Sale Sizzlers are a series of four 5k runs but the final one last night was very special as they had past and present Olympians in attendance. It was a lovely atmosphere with a fun 'Mr Motivator' workout at the start and plenty of opportunity to get photographs of the Olympians such as Dr Ron Hill MBE, Diane Modahl, Jeff Norman and Stuart Stokes who was fresh from London 2012.
It was a nice easy flat course though a hot night which left me with a time of 32:43 so not brill but what an honour to have run with such great Olympic heroes. Dr Ron Hill posted a time of 25:43 which in the V70 category is amazing and another Olympian Jeff Norman ran 21:02 in the V65 section - talk about inspiration! There were some unbelievable times with the first runner back in 14:32 which I believe broke the course record and the team course record was broken as well! It was also great in a field of over 600 people that started (there were only 510 on the results so not sure how that worked) to bump into a friend from work at the start line - small World!
This run took me to 60k and with Escrick 10k Sunday I'll be at 70k by the end of the week which is great progress. Sorry I didn't get any of the usual embarrassing pictures of me at the end of the race, I'd been so taken with getting ones of the Olympians we realised in the car home that we'd forgotten! I'll get some Sunday I'm sure.
Keri
This run took me to 60k and with Escrick 10k Sunday I'll be at 70k by the end of the week which is great progress. Sorry I didn't get any of the usual embarrassing pictures of me at the end of the race, I'd been so taken with getting ones of the Olympians we realised in the car home that we'd forgotten! I'll get some Sunday I'm sure.
Keri
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