28th HIVERNALES DU RACING CLUB DE BRUXELLES avec l’aide précieuse de INTERNATIONAL SCHOOL OF BRUSSELSHow pathetic is this... it's February and I have only managed one single, solitary run this year!! Having said that I do have some pretty good excuses; the elbow episode, Christmas (although strictly speaking it happened last year the effects were felt well into the new year), and it's bloody freezing outside!
The first run of 2008 was a forest race in Boitsfort, Brussels (http://docs.google.com/View?docid=df4hv48w_12htbrn7), and my first European run (the GNR doesn’t count; perhaps when they ditch the pound we'll reconsider...).
It was bitterly cold but spirits were high, unfortunately so were the hills! I thought it was a tough race with a variety of surfaces, oh and those hills... but I thoroughly enjoyed it! I crossed the line in 01:02:48, and I'm very happy with that! Here's a map of the route, if it displayed contours there would be so many that they would merge into one... honestly!!
I was running with Alain... well, we started together as he is what you might call a proper runner! We patiently waited at the start line and then, when the starting gun fired, he was gone... leaving behind a cartoon-like trail of dust in his wake. We started at the enterence to the college, on the edge of the forest. The route took us through the village and looped around to bring us back to the college, up the first of many hills and into the forest. That first hill was a bit of a shock; it was steep, long and very close to the start but it gave me a taste for things to come.
2 comments:
It was really a pleasure to have you both in Brussels.
Moya was very happy to see "Tata Susan" and "Tonton Andrew".
I hope you are starting to trzin well for Cork.
See you soon
Alain
excellent! I'm glad you're back racing...and what a race man, congratulations :-)
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