Hampton Court 10k

Posted: June 14th, 2008 | Author: Mark | Filed under: Events, General | 5 Comments »

I forgot to note in the last entry that my pack arrived from Cancer Research UK for my next 10k, the Hampton Court Palace 10k in September. It’s a nice low runner number of 944, which makes me feel super speedy considering my London 10k number was 6000-and-something. Sure, it’s probably because I was 944th to sign up, but I do not care for I am a man of self-delusion!

It also came with a nice girly-blue t-shirt to run in, although why they think anyone could survive a 10k in a cotton t-shirt is beyond me. It’s also an XL, so unless my dieting and fitness regime actually pays off, I won’t be even close to wearing it come September. I’ll wear my nice, light, but fat-bulge-clinging running shirt instead.

More walking this week, with two more walks to and from the station, so that’s 3 miles for my unofficial Juneathon. That leaves me with 15 days to do 97 more – easy!

5 Comments on “Hampton Court 10k”

  1. 1 jogblog said at 12:48 am on June 15th, 2008:

    Oh don’t remind me, I’m still getting over the shock of having just received a race number of 1 when I’m probably guaranteed to come in last. Is it shame or irony that I’m feeling?

  2. 2 Mark said at 9:14 am on June 15th, 2008:

    Well they (the infinite ‘they’) say there’s no shame in coming last, so it must be irony. Shameful, shameful irony.

  3. 3 jonathan said at 7:12 am on June 16th, 2008:

    Race number 1 – does that mean you get Des Lynham talking about your race on TV?

    Wot no XXXL T shirts – thats not equality & fairness…

  4. 4 Katie Mae said at 2:36 am on June 24th, 2008:

    Good on ya! I am a (former) fat runner, and I love what you are doing. The first time I flung my fat ass around the track was August, 2007. It was awful. I was like you. Tore up, from the floor up. That will fade. The body will become fit from the inside-out. Keep at it, work though the pain.

    And about the pain: there are two kinds of pain. One is the pain that tells your body you are injured. The “shit mother-fucker” pain. (sorry about the language, but you get it, right?) And the other is the body being torn down and rebuilt. Think the demolition of an old building, and the building of a state-of-the-art one in its place. this pain is good. Welcome it. Pain is a tribute to the work you out into your body. Love it. Worship it.

    One day I got on the track and BAM! I was a gazelle. Just like that. That was the day I became a runner. I have been seriously training for 3 months now and finished my first 1/2 marathon last month. Find your gazelle. Get your wife out there too.

  5. 5 Mark said at 10:03 am on June 24th, 2008:

    Hey Katie – thanks for the comment :) And yep, I know the ’shit mother-fucker’ pain very well!

    Congrats on running your first half – I’d like to do one next year if I survive my next 10k with a positive frame of mind ;)