Kathy's Committment

Shrewsbury parkrun 2nd November 2013

I was at Shrewsbury Quarry on Saturday, the weather was great when the sun came out. I really enjoyed the run and got used to the hills in the quarry. There was a good atmosphere and thanks to Janet Pugh for coming with me. I finished in 37.08    
 
Cannock Rotary 10k  3rd November 2013

 Kathy and Sam Jones at the Cannock Rotary 10K

Although it was a cold morning the sun came out and made me feel good and raring to go.
It's one of those races where you start at a cross roads. As 11am approached Richard  the starter  came along and gathered us all up and as soon it was safe he gets us on the main road. There was no messing about, the horn goes and off we go. The first half mile is downhill and that's it, it's mainly all  hills.  We were to always keep to the left because of the amount of heavy traffic. I had done about half a mile when these three young lads came and overtook me and then suddenly stopped in front of me. The pattern was repeated three times so I got a bit fed up with this and made an extra effort to pass them and keep running, not letting them catch me up, then I caught another three young ladies up who had suddenly realised this is no fun run, so I had to get going to pass the. At last I now could get in to my rhythm, nice and steady,  past another man,he was no problem. When I passed mile 4 a marshal on a bike came up to me and asked if I was OK? I gave him such a look  as to what's going on ??  No it's OK love he said,the three lads had dropped out after the mile and sat down and had a fag, the girls were walking as they had had enough and he was wondering if I was going to finish. No commitment I thought to myself so I just kept going up the hills, I really enjoyed this race as there was very good marshalling with their flags. The heavy traffic never bothers me because of the good marshalling. We had a very nice goodie bag.

Kathy on the road

Event 1      StraLugano 5K     28/09/2013

Event 2      StraLugano 10K   29/09/2013

Event 3      Bournemouth parkrun   39.48    05/10/2013

Event 4      Supersonic 10k (Bournemouth)   1:22:00    05/10/2013
Event 5      Speed of light 5k  (Bournemouth)    0:46:15   05/10/2013
Event 6      Telford parkrun  38:45 12/10/2013
Event 7      The Bells of Pattingham, Seven Miles 1:49:00 13/10/2013 

Event 8      Shrewsbury parkrun 38:40 19/10/2013
Event 9      Birmingham Half Marathon  3:20:37  20/10/2013
Event 10    Bupa Great South Run (Portsmouth) 2:38:18
Event 11   Shrewsbury parkrun 37:08  02/11/2013
Event 12   Cannock Rotary 10K  1:24:01  03/11/2013