Marathon Day 6, Monday 21st March - Lincoln, Yarborough Sports Centre

Woke up to bright sunshine and a comment from Andy that I had apparently been "rattling the tiles" a bit - no real problems though, he said!

Barry ferried us to collect the RV and we found the venue on the second attempt!  Set up very efficiently (as you would expect by now) and ready in good time for Lord Mayor, pre race pleasantries and race start.

A fit looking Andy!

Circuit was figure of eight cycle track around the Yarborough Sports Centre Playing fields, hard surface approx 1.4miles long, with some adverse camber.

The all important race number!

Barry and I went on a banking & shopping expedition  to Lincoln centre. Only thing is that we parked near our hotel which meant a walk down a very steep hill to the main shops.  We had fun feeding nearly £1,000 of mixed coins through the bank's counting machine - God, whatever happened to that personal service that we used to get from the banks!!!

Managed to get my spectacles repaired again - thank you Dixons Opticians for donating the £10 cost to the ABF.
Not able to get replacement battery for my iphone, however so will just have to struggle on with the 2 battery storage devices that I've got with me. So up that bloody steep hill (in fitflops), back to the car and back into the fray!!

Kept myself busy with route preparation for the RV and Sophie, then a lap with Andy before he finished with a time of 7hrs 5mins.

Across the line again

 

Packed up, dumped waste and determined to fill up en route to Nottingham, approx. 44 miles distant.

Stopped at suitable services and some 200+ litres of unleaded later and just short of £300 lighter we proceeded on our way to arrive at our overnight stop and next day venue, Highfields Park, Nottingham University Campus.
Barry and Nicky departed  for the hotels and Colin and I were left to our own devices.

Evening meal consisted of a ham salad sandwich and cuppa  followed by blogging for me and a bit of telly for my partner in crime.

A flash light at the window and knock on the door announced the arrival of Campus Security who seemed a bit surprised to find us parked up in all of our  apparent domesticity. A brief explanation seemed to satisfy them and with a warning that if we left our bicycles locked to the back of the vehicle all night we were likely to find them with their wheels missing in the morning - their advice was heeded!

And so to bed . . . . . . .

Benji's Blog

Hi Benji,
Another day gone and I'm just a little bit further away from home, in Lincoln.
Uncle Andy's race was right next to a school today so there was lots of children around and some of them ran with him - that cheered him up a lot.
He talked to me about when you ran with him on Sunday - he said that you ran very fast! It made me very proud.
I know that mummy's new bed came today - I just bet that you'll snuggle up with her in the morning. Lucky you!

Night, Night Sweetheart.
Love you the Moon.
Daddy.
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