Well, that was jolly pleasant. Twelve thousand like-minded individuals in Hyde Park with their best bibs on and doing their bit for themselves or charity. The main charity was Help a London Child, and Capital FM were in full effect, raising any awareness in the vicinity. The conditions remained favourable, I guess a little warm if one had to complain, but basically first rate.
The organisation was very good, absolutely bang on time and not even a hint of chaos which given you're dealing with twelve thousand people (and their hangers-on) is very impressive. However, I should have been a bit more ballsy with my predicted finish time, as I was fighting my way through people for pretty much the entire distance. You can tell this was not a popular race with club runners, as my (admittedly fairly decent, but hardly superhuman) time of 41m 11s scored me position 172. Out of 12000.
I would have loved to squeak in under 41m, and felt I could have given more earlier on. Perhaps doing that mini-triathlon at the gym on Friday night wasn't the best idea really, and not something I'd do if today had been a "proper" event.
The goody bag was top class - medal, T-shirt (handy, given I hadn't taken a change of clothes), energy drink and chewy bar thing.
Full results at http://secure.greatrun.org/results/resultDisplay.php (kudos once more to Bupa for getting them up instantly - which of course is reasonable given it's all computerised, but still quite unusual).
Right, back to uploading the Northern Excursion stuff....
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