Bloody Hills and PB's

Well Easters here and it was the Crown 2 Crown 5k on Good Friday.

The 88's had a team of Me, Bob and 5 (Timi, Anne, Wendy, Julie C & Jenny ) 88's Angels running, Some bloke from the crystal maze was watching (Gary) and my dad had a new glamorous assistant (Sian). There was even a photo with old 88 and now Pitsea boy Steve Ray, He may have a Pitsea vest but looks like he has no Pitsea friends as he spent most of the time chatting with us and in the pub after :-)

Here's us all before, Hang on where's Bob? ok not all before!!

It was a great sunny day again!! a nice course with a few hurdles with Jenny surely breaking the clubs steeplechase record? It was great going down but what goes down comes back up right :-(

Bloody long drag up the hill and mountain climb at the finish lol, ok it wasnt that bad when you finished and everyone had a great run as you can see in the after picture :-)

Us all after :-) with Steve Ray, and Carol too! wearing Indian Headband!!

Hang on something ain't right with that picture, here's a close up of Steve Ray

Arghhh, he's turned to the darkside!!

Next up on Saturday was parkrun :-) time for some fast 5k PB action. Jenny was RD so we had to look good while she was in charge :-)

First 88 home was Gary in 20:46 and a new PB :-), very well deserved as he has been putting in some serious training for the London Marathon, next up was Ian who was 30min pacer, followed by new PB's for both Joanne Barker in 31:39 and Julie Wilkins 31:48 being paced by me, or is that dragged round kicking and screaming lol, well done Angels x, we did lose one though Sian, but she was dragged round by Timi in a time of 34:23, Sian i will stay with you all the way next week and you will smash your PB too mate, remember sometimes it just don't happen, remember 2 weeks ago when i thought i'd done it to be 37 seconds out!! it happens to us all. Next week is your week :-)

Also running was Sam V in 32:52 and Jo (Savitri Bouffe) recording her third new parkrun pb in 3 weeks with a 38:12 being paced by Caroline C.

I must say it was great helping others to a PB as Gary had done to me a week earlier, and to see Julies face light up when i told her the time was great, its funny because yes your hurting and you want to give up but that's how you get a PB, its not easy to beat a previous time but when it goes right like it did today, after the finish you somehow have energy again, so much that Julie run to the car and back lol

I'm so proud of my team because they all encourage and help each other. Well done all :-)