Ached a bit last week after the long runs on the two previous weekends. Had a busy week at work and play so was out doing laps of Ballincollig village at dawn on Wednesday and Thursday.
It was strange on Saturday morning not having to dedicate a few hours to warm up, long run and cool down... Instead of pounding the pavements I went for brunch in Kinsale with Dervila, who was down from Dublin for the weekend. Lovely!
Sunday was the BHAA Cork to Cobh road race - 15 miles. Woke at 4am feeling dehydrated after half a bottle of wine with a gorgeous dinner and a fabulous date at Fenn's Quay. Vino the evening before a long race - not very clever and a lesson I certainly learnt again and again as I ran through Glountaune & Fota with its never-ending series of corners. Fortunately Team Twomey was on hand to dole out the Energise. The team had a new recruit with week - Marguerite, team photographer!!! Twelve to fifteen went by in a blur but I was definitely happy to come down the hill and past the Comm... Suffered some leg cramps afterwards due to dehydration - first time ever but again, lucky me, I had my own personal physio, Toni, with me.
I'll have a little bit of celebrating re turning 27 again this Wednesday and then am going to be a Father Matthew patriot for the 3 weeks up to the big day. Focus!! Sans vino...
I'm delighted to report that fund-raising is now over €2,400 - there's obviously a lot of people out there with a lot of faith in me. Thank you!
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