I've left it a few days before writing this little paragraph. Bit lazy, really!
The last Sexarathon series race was held this year at Harper Adams University College, replacing the much-loathed Madeley Matchmaker 5km. The Madeley race had to go as the Court Centre Sports Centre has also gone. Sad in some ways, but probably not missed much.
It was a beautiful late blue-sky Summer's evening. The old and new buildings of the college shone out in the sunshine. Here and there groups of young people were gathering for small sports events on the fields, or out working on the crops (HA is an agricultural college).
Here and there the older people were gathering for the race.
We too got together in small groups, comparing injuries and expanding waistlines, checking on series points, avoiding eye contact with our deadly rivals (well, maybe not the last one), warming up, stretching, diving into the fields for a pee..
Being a lovely warm evening in the country, there was that warm, sweet smell you get from field crops.
We made our way to the start and the field of about 200 were soon making their way out into the countryside, along a narrow lane before turning out on to a wide and undulating farm track. There was a short road stretch before a half-mile in the woods and back in the way you came out. It was over as soon as it began, really. Nothing too strenuous, nothing too hilly.
It's a shame I couldn't complete the whole series due to injury but I'll be back next year, I think I might have a new favourite little race.
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