WHAT A PUDDING

Close your eyes, picture the scene, bright sunshine, warm breeze gently gliding though your hair, pina colada by your side and the waves breaking onto the white sandy beach beneath your feet.....FORGET THAT, gale blowing your Santa beard into your eyes, cold freezing rain battering into your eyes and deep puddles all across the 5 miles route of your Christmas pudding dash, add to that a fallen tree we had to hurdle as we ran through the woods around Wythenshawe Park near Manchester twice but all in all an enjoyable run if not a bit slippy and very very wet underfoot.

I managed the 4.9 miles in 49 minutes and 12 seconds, if it had been dry i reckon i could have shaved the 12 seconds off, not bad considering i had set a goal of 60 minutes to be on the safe side, came in 55th out of 133 but reckon i broke the record for eating a mince pie once i had finished. unfortunately they cancelled the mulled wine or i may have been mullered by 12 o'clock.

Here is my Prize for finishing, quite remarkable they got my picture on the medal so quickly.
Here is the run and my vital statistics pudding run details

I think I've got this running bug now, my next official race is in March in High Legh, a 10k memorial race and then another 10k in Lymm in April and then the Great Manchester 10k at the end of May, if fitness goes to plan and I lose some more weight I hope to run a half marathon in the summer if we get one, maybe a Glasgow or a Dublin trip for a holiday run.