Today was the day that Paul had been fearing for weeks, the day he was going to run the Hatfield House 10k charity race. We picked Paul's Dad and brother George up and got to Hatfield for the 6.2 mile run a little early to avoid all the traffic and parking problems. Unfortunately, thanks to a problem on the M25, his wait was even longer as the race started about 10-15 minutes late.
As for Paul's run, it went a lot better than any of us expected. He started at the back of the field of 1400 runners, so Dawn could get a photo of her athlete of a husband. However, by the halfway stage, he had overtaken half of the field to get into the leading third of the runners. On his back he had a sign to commemorate his Mum and Dawn's dad, both of whom we lost to cancer. After he completed the race, he couldn't help but feel inspired by reading all the commemorations for countless friends, parents and grandparents on the backs of all the other participants.
Paul completed the run in 62 minutes 22 seconds - a good ten to fifteen minutes better than he thought it would take. However, best of all was that he raised £80 ($150) for Cancer Research. Again, we'd like to thank everyone who made a donation. By the way, you can still make a donation by clicking on the Sponsor Paul link. It will be available for another couple of weeks.
After the run we stopped at Highgate for lunch. Our regular haunt, The Gatehouse, didn't have any tables open, so we popped next door to a noodle bar called Dim T. The food was excellent. Even Paul's dad loved the food.
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