5th August... that's today isn't it?

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ooooh.... august 10th! lol... I'll see if my magical powers let me change the title

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Wondered why everyone else on the track was in a car

Best come back Sunday.

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How was the race Giles? I never made it there in the end. Split my right big toe while climbing up Scafell Pike last Wednesday! I'm hoping my next attempt at actually getting to a race will be third time lucky though!

I never made it either

I turned my ankle last Wednesday and despite all my hopes I still can't walk on it properly let alone run. My next race (infact the first I booked) is the Torbay regatta on the 24th. I have been swimming to try and keep my fitness up and went out for a cycle today.

I was gutted to be honest, after all the build up.

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Oh bad luck! I'm not surprised you were gutted. Better luck with the next one though. I'm on the lookout for another local one but trying to fit it in around everything else at the moment might be tricky. I'd like to do my first one with hubby so I hope to get to one before the end of October ...... he's off to Iraq for 6 months then.

Sorry to hear neither of you made it... I wonder if anyone made it? lol... empty track with tumbleweed rolling across... two runners on the start line

Best of luck with the recoveries guys - Sure it'll all be gravy and merely a pimple upon your running career that you'll look back on and think nothing of in future years

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Thanks Richard, it's been a week now and yesterday I managed to walk on it without limping for the first time. This is going to be a long process I think

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at least your making progress though eh?? "you have to aaaaceennntuate the positives"...

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Blimey, I work at the garage on the front of the circuit, and I never knew it was on!

Guess will have to wait for next year for the next one. Will need to keep my eyes peeled for it though lol.

EDIT: Looks like there is another in November. I think I should enter that and make it my goal to do a sub 60 10K lol.

How could you miss that . I might be in a state to enter the November one as well. I lime the idea of running round a race track.

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so did anyone manage to run it? I'm interested to hear how people found it in terms of PB potential!

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Nobody else admitted to doing it.

What about the November one for the social? It is reasonably central in my book

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I'll be going to the one in November. It will be my 1st 10K so will be a good to see how slow I am lol.

Will try and get my boss to run it too.

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My Goals: To be able to bench press 100KG's for 8 to 10 reps and run a sub 40 10K before I am 40 as well as get down to 80KG's in weight!

Does sound good, and date would suit a winter social too... It might be a little too far west and/or south for some... I'll post in the forum social thread and see what the take up is....

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