European running Challenge

Sunday 25th March 2018 No 5  Richard 01:54:43 Jackie 02:14:07 The inscription on the medal and t-shirt translates as "nice to see you " . Now in its 13th year the Warsaw Half  Marathon has grown from 1000 runners in 2006 to over 14000 this year . This is a medium sized field in the world of  Big City running events but it attracts some top runners Kenya's Victor Kipchirchir is the event record holder at 60:48 for the men and Pauline Njeru in 69:06 for the women . This years winner was Kenyan  Erza Kiprotich Sang here are his splits . Nazwa Name Czas brutto Gun Time Czas netto Chip time Min/km Progonozowany czas Projected time 5KM 00:14:38 00:14:38 02:56 min/km 01:01:53 10KM 00:29:14 00:29:14 02:55 min/km 01:01:32 15KM 00:44:01 00:44:01 02:56 min/km 01:01:53 20KM 00:58:29 00:58:29 02:55 min/km 01:01:32 META 01:01:37.00 01:01:37 02:55 min/km   And for the women Ken

Sunday 4th March 2018 No 4 Richard 02:07:31 Jackie 02:12:32   We were lucky to make this as " Beast from the East " had arrived bringing high winds , freezing temperatures and snow snow and more snow . This is what it was like on Thursday 1st March , the M62 was shut due to drifting and high winds.  As our train left at 8.30am Friday morning  we decided to load the bikes on the car and stay overnight at a Hotel close to the station. Cycling was out of the question . Originally we had planned to cycle London to Paris but as we  only arrived back from the Malta Half on Monday 29th February we switched plans . Lucky we did as I very much doubt we would have had any chance against the "beast". Jackie at Piccadilly Station At St. Pancras International  , bikes checked in . The journey went better than expected , the stations were very busy and many trains had been cancelled . We had to make a diversion because of icicles in a tunnel a