I'm with a good bunch of guys. At the age of 36 I'm the young Whipper Snapper. I'm running leg 2 of the 4 leg relay in the shadow of Big Ben.
Nick comes hammering back trying to hold of another run. We slap hands and I am off, focussed. But alas too fast, I start to suffer and ease off. At the stairs by M16 I swing my arms and bound up the stairs, overtaking another competitor. I catch a few more runners on the North side of the Thames.
In the last couple of hundred metres I manage to pickup a sprint and get a big cheer from the fellow runners. Last year I had run two legs, the faster being 16:16. This year I wanted to go sub 16. I look at the watch, 15:54. Happy with that, job done and so off to the pub.
3.68km 15:54
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