Targets!

Remember the 'Machen 8 in less than an hour' target? And the fact that Ice Cream Sian and I were well over 1 hour and 5 minutes? Well, this weekend Team Got-a-Sec did it in 37 minutes!

BIG YAY!

So this morning Ice Cream Sian turned up to run. 10 minutes late, but with quite the best excuse for being late I have ever heard....

'Sorry I'm late, I had to fish Barbie arms out of the van.'

'Just the arms?'

'Yep.'

She was also wearing a fab T shirt...

Run 10k?? The Machen 8 is actually only 8.2k... Oh, and that's the 'don't look at me I'm a wreck' position...

So off we set. Chatting as usual - mostly about the Proms In The Park in Caerphilly being cancelled last night - so sad, it would have been brilliant with the castle in the background, but the rain was torrential... Can we have it again next year please and try again?

I made the mistake, halfway round, of saying 'this isn't as muddy as I expected' and then we slid the rest of the way in the, er, MUD. Still, it's something we should be getting used to as the Mud Runner is in FIVE weeks time. Eeeeek.

After our efforts we had the whole 'who gets the most purple in the face' competition and decided the only way to decide was to take photos.

Not that I'm competitive or anything....

But it's my blog... I win!

So, having smashed the 'Machen 8 in under an hour' (OK, so it was only Fit Mark who ran that time but, hey, it's a team event so it works, he did it yesterday with an extra '4 miles or so' in the middle) Ice Cream Sian and I settled on a new target.

In the next 5 weeks, we'll run 50k. And be fit for the Mud Runner.

Just 10k a week then...