Sorry about the long delay in updating the blog but the past few weeks have been somewhat hectic - and the next few will be something to write home about too!After our trip to Madison the next thing on our agenda was the Cologne Marathon. We had planned to drive over to Germany but a fire on a freight train in the Channel Tunnel put paid to our plans and we managed to get a cheap flight at the last minute. This was our third outing to the race in Cologne and each time we go we seem to take more and more friends with us - we are starting to feel like the Pied Piper!
The weather was awful - cold and rainy - just when your clothes had dried out from the rain it started raining again! The marathon doesn't start until gone 11:00 to give the real head-cases a chance to run the Half Marathon first ... there are even some who enter the HM, then the 42km inline skate race and only THEN do they run the marathon!
We were on for a comfortable 4:30 but things went west around 16 miles and we slowed to a crawl for a while - finally came in at 5:15 - as we crossed the bridge over the Rhine with 1km to go the speakers blared out "The Final Countdown" (I love "Euro Pop") and Didi Senft "The Devil" from the Tour de France was there in his devil outfit to cheer us on!
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