Reading Half Marathon.

I’ve realised I haven’t posted anything on here for ages. I seemed to make a grand re-appearance, and then promptly forgot to write anything else. But now I’m back again, possibly to do precisely the same thing again. We’ll see.

This morning I wandered up to campus at 10am to cheer on a couple of friends, James and Eve, who were running in the Reading Half Marathon. A group of us found some convenient railings, and stood there waiting for the masses of people to start sprinting past. 

Eventually, a car drove past, being chased by a man in a wheelchair who was going far faster than is probably allowed. A few minutes later, a couple of police motorbikes came into view, followed by four Kenyan men who seemed to be taking the whole thing very seriously (it worked – apparently they took the top four places). Finally, the hoards of people arrived, in a variety of guises. Batman was among the first to pass, with Spiderman, Superman and other assorted superheroes following him. Also running were a Lucozade bottle, a fish, a chip, Spongebob Squarepants, a variety of insects, and a camel. Oh, and there was a banana. There’s always a banana.

The Lucozade bottle, happily running along. (Photo from Toffee Raspberry on Flickr)

Our friends did come running past, both so fast that we almost missed them. Surprisingly, they didn’t want to stop and chat...

After the 17,000 runners had passed, and I couldn’t find any further excuses, I went back to my second home, the University Library. Six-thousand words of essay are due in on this coming Friday, and they’re not going to write themselves. Trust me; I tried that with the last one.