You can never trust the British weather as today proved. The exercise session before the village fun run was led by the excellent Norfolk Olympiad Paul Evans who is a very special person. I have got to know Paul over the past year and particularly over the 10 weeks of the Hethersett Social Running Club which Paul has coached. Paul radiates positivity and manages to transfer that to all around him.
So the sun shone. But as the event began it started to rain - slowly at first but then torrentially with thunder and lightning. The runners/walkers got soaked and I'm sure some of their facepainting ran something rotten. I was taking photos of the start and finish and got drenched as well. The last time my camera got soaked was on the Great Wall of China when it stopped working. This time it seemed to survive okay.
With everyone safely back I set off with organiser Shane Hull to run the course myself and see whether my 10 weeks of athletic training have improved my performance. I did run the square a few weeks ago when I completed it in just over 20 minutes.
Taking part in the funrun must be - well fun - with 280 people taking part. I always miss the roads being shut off and being able to run with others. So it's a pretty lonely furrow that we plough and the feeling of wanting to stop on occasions becomes quite string, Somehow I managed to keep going for the whole course and when I stopped my stopwatch was delighted to find it reading 18 min 38.1 seconds - almost two minutes quicker than last time.
I know I keep saying it - but this was another excellent event. By the time I ran the sun was out again. Good old Paul Evans even made something out of the rain, saying it added to the challenge and excitement!!!!
I returned home to dry out further and then wandered down to the Memorial Field where our football club was holding a major ladies five-a-side competition. We had 26 teams taking part from Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire and it all ended with Peterborough Ladies winning both the main and the plate competitions.
For me that concluded the weekend - what an exceptional one it had been. I got to every event apart from the multi-denominational church service on Sunday morning in Hethersett Social Club and the songs of praise this evening in the parish church.
I have to admit I was so tired that I even watched England lose to Italy in the Euros. Usually our national team leave me so cold that I start doing other things. Oh well there's still the World Cup for that.
So the sun shone. But as the event began it started to rain - slowly at first but then torrentially with thunder and lightning. The runners/walkers got soaked and I'm sure some of their facepainting ran something rotten. I was taking photos of the start and finish and got drenched as well. The last time my camera got soaked was on the Great Wall of China when it stopped working. This time it seemed to survive okay.
With everyone safely back I set off with organiser Shane Hull to run the course myself and see whether my 10 weeks of athletic training have improved my performance. I did run the square a few weeks ago when I completed it in just over 20 minutes.
Taking part in the funrun must be - well fun - with 280 people taking part. I always miss the roads being shut off and being able to run with others. So it's a pretty lonely furrow that we plough and the feeling of wanting to stop on occasions becomes quite string, Somehow I managed to keep going for the whole course and when I stopped my stopwatch was delighted to find it reading 18 min 38.1 seconds - almost two minutes quicker than last time.
I know I keep saying it - but this was another excellent event. By the time I ran the sun was out again. Good old Paul Evans even made something out of the rain, saying it added to the challenge and excitement!!!!
I returned home to dry out further and then wandered down to the Memorial Field where our football club was holding a major ladies five-a-side competition. We had 26 teams taking part from Norfolk, Suffolk and Cambridgeshire and it all ended with Peterborough Ladies winning both the main and the plate competitions.
For me that concluded the weekend - what an exceptional one it had been. I got to every event apart from the multi-denominational church service on Sunday morning in Hethersett Social Club and the songs of praise this evening in the parish church.
I have to admit I was so tired that I even watched England lose to Italy in the Euros. Usually our national team leave me so cold that I start doing other things. Oh well there's still the World Cup for that.
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