June Wong
As a newbie, many of my results are from my first and only attempt at a particular distance, so these, Jim, are PBs, but not as we know them…
London Ultra 50K Feb 2011 6hrs 41mins
Great Welsh Marathon April 2010 4hrs 33mins
Sparks 5K Dorney Lake Feb 2010 23:49
Paddock Wood Half Marathon April 2009 2hrs 07mins
To lose weight – still waiting for the effect to kick in!
No... unless you go as far back as school – in the hockey team briefly!
Work-wise, I flap my hands around and pull funny faces for a living – no, I am not a mime, I am a sign language interpreter. At other times I walk my dog, grow veg, knit cardigans… To be honest, there doesn’t seem to be much time when I am not running or sleeping to recover from running. Will that improve if I get better at running?
London Ultra because I was SO ready for it. Loved the feeling of catching, passing people and then never seeing them again- especially men half my age! Thanks for pacing tips Derek.
Bewl Water 15 miler in 2009 (I think) – stinking hot, running at the back of the field (as always) – no jelly babies left. It took me about 12 miles to catch a rather large lady in a charity T-shirt… and then she nearly caught and passed me in the last mile!
Darent Valley 10K. Lovely scenery and I won a spot prize – pair of socks. Shame they were size 6 and had to be given to larger-footed friend.
Run/walk. I know it’s probably against the law for a Harrier to walk when out for a run, but run/walk has worked for me. That’s how I built up my endurance quite quickly as a novice runner to be able to complete a 50K and still be smiling (see pic).
Ham – a Jack Russell terrier. Great little hill climber, never moans about the session.
Where can Ham get his next paddle/drink? (I think he is part hippo and can’t seem to go more than about 3 miles without wading into a pond or river)
Nesquik chocolate milk and a tuna/mayo sandwich.
Lifetime as in life as a runner? That’s only about 4 years! So this may change when I grow up: Lakeland 50. Also like to take part in (instead of marshalling) TWells Half and Eridge 10 (as I heard it was voted Runner’s World UK’s best race in 2009…).
Running the Great Clarendon marathon (Salisbury to Winchester) as training 3 weeks before the Beachy Head marathon. It was SO hard and hilly and muddy. Took a lot out of me (and made me want to cry) and meant I was still tired when the day to run Beachy Head dawned. Shame. Won’t make that mistake again!
The people,
running cross-country, the club tours, the racing, the Sunday runs. Have had some great advice, and been
motivated to keep on challenging myself.