Well, we had decided an Eeeek Meeting was a good idea, so this morning Guy, Fit Mark and I went up to Ice Cream Sian's lovely ice cream parlour to have our first team (or Eeeek) meeting. I'd printed out some pictures of last year's Oblivion Mud Runner race, and this is the moment when Ice Cream Sian realised just what's involved:
And, yes, that's me laughing unsympathetically.... that arm coming in from the right is Fit Mark who's clearly pointing out some ghastliness of the obstacles - he's done it before!
Then we got onto technicalities, like, um, 'training' and 'lycra' (baggy T shirts are out, apparently, as they collect too much mud and water) and 'cross country trainers'.
Eeeek again. Training? Don't they know I only 'practise' at the moment? We are now set for our first training run next Saturday at 7.30am. Eeeek! Fit Mark is good at running and Ice Cream Sian's done a half marathon. I'm still learning to do 5k without expiring... As a 'for instance' as to how our training regimes differ, yesterday morning Guy and I were sitting up in bed with the curtains pulled back having our hot cross buns and Mark ran past on the lane... See? Slight difference in approach...
So now I need to go find some 'all terrain' shoes.
And practise!
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