Last long run!!! The taper starts NOW!!!!

Today was our last long run before we start to taper down, so an early start was the order of the day!!

Captain Sandra requested we be at Boathouse for 7am, which we all duly did! (other than Carolyn who attempted a fake "phone in sick" call, whilst pulling into the car park!!!)

As Sandra had failed to give us a song clue last time it was her turn, she attempted to make up by giving us 3 to guess this week! This was met with a number of moans and groans and in fact Carolyn left us after 2 miles to do her own thing!!! Allegedly because she wanted to only do 18 miles but possibly to avoid more song clues!!!

It was a beautiful morning and we had a lovely route out to Strathblane, away from the traffic and very sociable with loads of chit chat etc until of course we turned and headed home, when as usual the chat stopped and the we pushed for home!!!

Litter lout Jim dropped his gel pouch despite being only 15 metres from a bin-tut tut!!!

Captain Band was on fire pushing the pace on and had to be pulled back all the way (although she only managed to do this for about 3-4 steps and then battered on again-I think she was trying to run the sprint finish out of us!!!)

Jim took the easy option and ran back along the canal, whilst Captain and Coach took the hilly route home!!!

Carolyn and her dodgy calf managed an admirable 18 miles and met us back at the Boathouse!!  We were also met by Moira, Sian and Niamh-so a nice little end to our last long run!!!!!

As well as our last long run, it will be our last run together as Jim is away next weekend and Sean is away at Easter.  What a team though, it has been a real pleasure running together!!!