Today was the Liverpool Rock n Roll Marathon which I should have been running. I was so sad and gutted that I wasn't doing it! :(
Got into town for before 9 with Jo, Rich and Sarah. The weather was perfect maybe a bit too hot for a marathon but anything is better than the rain and elements we've had to deal with! The race started at the Albert Dock. We watched the start of the Half Marathon that started at 9ish which Jack, his sister and cousin was running. Angie and her partner Jonny were also running too. Rich was suppose to run but decided not to cos he hadn't trained and didn't want to get a worse time. The full wasn't starting till around 10ish so we stayed with Jo and hyped her up ready to go.
Should've been matching with these 2 with my compression socks too!
This amazing woman's number 1 fan looking fresh before the big race.
You could go down and sign up on Friday night I was so tempted to walk down and sign up for the marathon cos I wanted to do it so bad but never.
We left them to start then headed to Love Thy Neighbour on Bold Street to have breakfast.
Love Thy Neighbour
Rich got a peanut butter hot chocolate
Clearly hungry... got a scrambled egg & smoked salmon bagel. Sausage and red onion sough dough sandwich
Sarah got the Cosmic Cacao Smoothie Bowl - banana, avocado, cacao
I got the Berry Blast Smoothie Bowl - raspberries, blueberries, pineapple, banana
I've had the smoothie bowl before when I went with Holly. Was a bit disappointed today though the smoothie was really thin and runny. It was defo thicker last time wouldn't say it was a smoothie.
After we headed back to the finish line which was at the back of the Echo Arena to see Jack finishing his race. After we headed into town.
We might not have ran any of the races but we did cross the start line!
We went into town to find Rich a neck strap (I think that's what it's called) for his sunglasses but went to every Home Bargains in town, every pound shop, bargain random shop, Primark, T K Maxx and every opticians but no-where sold them! The last place we went to was Boots opticians where we finally found them! Literally trekked all around town to find one. Practically doing our own half marathon there!
We went back to the finish line at around 2pm as we were tracking Jo and she was due to finish around quarter past.
She's amazing and absolutely smashed it with a time of 3:57:51. Beat that 4 hour mark we wanted! Didn't train further than 17 miles either but on the day just did it! I am so proud of her and literally look up to her at how amazing she is. I know if I was doing it I probably wouldn't have been able to keep up as she was so consistent averaging around 9 minute miles. I would've struggled so bad especially with that heat!
Rich thinking he's just ran a full marathon before Jo got her time engraved onto her medal. Absolute rip off for £12 for an actual second. We blinked and it was done!
Met up with Jo from work who ran the half with Iain from work. She wanted to meet the other amazing Jo since she gave us the plan for this marathon even though we didn't quite stick to it - it really helped thanks!
Jonny sadly didn't finish the race but he tried and managed to do half of it. Injury got the better of him but he did more than me by actually starting the race. We'll both do it next year and smash it! We've got our own coach that's been there done it and has the t-shirt to show for it!
Congratulations and well done to everyone who ran the half or full marathon or 1 miler today and the 5km race yesterday. You're all amazing and all the training is definitely worth it for that medal!!
Jo you're the best and I hope when I finally get to run a marathon my time is just as good as yours!
