Ground-hog day

Another day, same wind, same rain… Nothing has changed. Ohh, maybe one thing. Decided to start at 8 AM. Was checking the weather day before and it looked like same old, same old, with slightly better morning. Of course that wasn’t the case on the day… Was trying to convince Cezary to start with me earlier but Cezary woke up too late. So, I took under consideration start at 9 AM. But still wanted to have that crappy weather behind me and if there would be any chance of running without rain and wind I will take it. Besides there was still chance of me getting lost. So, running earlier more chances to see runners using proper route and follow them. Day before, tried 9 o’clock and got lost cause there was not many runners running behind me. Ok, 8 AM start. Was sitting with Cezary till 7:40. He was having his breakfast and I decided to run without him earlier…

Quite amount of runners starting at 8. There was as well start at 7 AM for slower runners. And still many runners waiting for official 9 o’clock start. Would say that with 10 K, half marathoners and marathoners there would be 200 participants. Racing, enjoying themselves even in that horrible weather. All of them were very happy at the finish line. Battered but happy. And result wasn’t so important. 2:48 or 6:59… run finished. Great atmosphere and that was most important. Gary O’Hannlon – winner, me who haven’t got lost and whole TEAM Kerr running in great numbers. Differences in time was huge between us but we all have covered 26.2 miles (some more) and we all were happy when finishing run…

Happy in the end but during run and before I was convinced that it will be my last winter in Clonakilty. But that has started to change when I was getting closer to finish. Last three miles flat, earlier downhill but before that constant ups and downs… Killer of hills.

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