Great Yorkshire Run

I went to Sheffield this weekend for the Great Yorkshire run. This is a 10km round Sheffield. The friend I was supposed to run with let me down and cancelled by text on the morning of the race which I was really annoyed about. The race itself was good. I stayed at my Dad's in Manchester had a very nice weekend with family and drove over to Sheffield on the Sunday morning. I parked near the Don valley Stadium and got the tram in. I'd been wanting to try the Sheffield tram to see how it stacked up against the Manchester one (quite well as it happens). I missed my start time but just went in the next wave 7 minutes later so so worries.

The race was not quite as big or nice as the Great Manchester run but I got a time of 43:51 which I was quite pleased with, not quite as fast as the 43:12 PB I got in Manchester earlier in the year but then the last 400m of this one were uphill.

To get there from my Dad's this required a drive through the Pennines. It was really, really nice country side sort of heathland and valleys and reservoirs and I wished I could have stopped to look round. I like that kind of countryside, To quote one of my favourite quotes

"I love all waste And solitary places; where we taste The pleasure of believing what we see Is boundless, as we wish our souls to be"

Shelley

I was thinking that perhaps I will go could go back there and do some hiking next time I am in Manchester.

Pics to follow when I get them.

Now back to training for the marathon this weekend. I hope I can do it. I have not done any long runs for a bit due to being in Japan but I ran for 1:36.03 this lunchtime with no problems so I hope I should be OK, I just may be a bit slow.

UPDATE

Pics are here
http://media.greatrun.org/index.php?page=search3&st&race_id=58&runner_no=6462

Results are here
http://raceresults.greatrun.org/results.aspx?race=132
just do a search for my name.