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Yup, Beckenham Running Club do France....
Zut Alors.
21 make it to Reims for the 10k, the half
( or 'semi' as its called over there, bah!) and the full ( or 'turgid', I
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meet at Waterloo at some ungodly hour. All BRC adventures start this way for
some reason. Martin wonders if he has forgotten anything, and where is
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We are all trying to wake up Martin. Each in our own
way...
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Stuart brushes up his french, Kate nurses her coffee.
Nicky is eating fruit. Sums us all up really.
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Yup. We're all still here...
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le dentiste and Ken l'ultrarunner
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We somehow managed to navigate the entire
party on foot from Paris Nord to Paris Est, a distance of several hundred
yards, without losing anyone. And a yard may be shorter than a meter, but a
meter is a meaningless measure of the volume represented by 100 cc's of
distilled water, which is plain silly, whereas the yard is a scientifically
derived length based on the length of King Henry I's arm. You have to wonder
if Henry had stretched himself just a little bit further Roger Bannister
would never have managed the 4 minute mile. But we digress.
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the big race. Everyone did pretty well and sorry, no pics of the 10k and semi.
But we started to party on behalf of the full marathon runners who were
still out there. We basically did an 'agincourt' on the champagne stall and
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You had to see this chap in the toupe.
This band were loud. They were rockin'. Most of all though, they were loud.
Meanwhile Gran-pere here took it all in his stride and sat on the
stage, looking vaguely bewildered. Maybe he'd never heard 'Mustang Sally'
before. I've never heard it quite like that certainly.
Oh yes, there was a race still going on.
Nicky Storms home, shortly followed by John.
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....looking as fresh at the finish as the rose that the
organisers presented to all the women marathon finishers. Like they'd done
something special.
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All in Safely....
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and we could "relax"...
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In fact some of us got very
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It had been a long day.
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And it didn't stop there... you can see
the video...
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And back home. A short stop in Paris,
into the Latin Quarter. Or Latin Quarter as they call it.
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And the punchline for this picture is
currently with our legal department.
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Yes, there is a video of that
dancing.....
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