Andrea - Abbey Dash 2011

Busy Finish Line

Andrea is taking running more seriously, going to the Halifax Harriers each week and training in a more professional way. She was hoping to improve her personnel best for a 10K run. Unusually for Andrea she'd been ill for a couple of day , Andrea is never poorly, and usually battles through it, but this time she'd had time off work!

With all this background there was some uncertainty about how things might go. We set off very early, 7.15am on a Sunday!! Leeds was very busy, in all about 6500 runners were taking part. We made our way up to the Headrow and watched the warm up. The kids were quite funny, they were all dressed up in winter coats, but did the warm up just for fun.

The race started at 9:30am and once everyone had cleared the start line things quietened off for a while....

The winner did the race in under 30 minutes! Andrea had to beat a time of 54 minutes. We stood anxiously waiting and thankfully she easily beat her best coming in at 51 minutes and 11 seconds. She was well chuffed and had to go out with her mates for a celebration drink in the afternoon.

Good Job Andrea!