{"id":247,"date":"2010-05-26T16:04:18","date_gmt":"2010-05-26T15:04:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/wp\/?p=247"},"modified":"2010-05-26T16:04:18","modified_gmt":"2010-05-26T15:04:18","slug":"grok-runs-barefoot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.wrigley.me.uk\/2010\/05\/grok-runs-barefoot\/","title":{"rendered":"Grok Runs Barefoot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Today I ran a 5K “Fun Run” organised by Microsoft on the business park I work on. The event was in aid of the NSPCC<\/a>. I’d heard there was a prize for best costume, and I figured a caveman costume gave me a good excuse to run it barefoot.<\/p>\n

I didn’t win the best costume prize, but I did win the “Most Creative Way of Completing the Course” award, and got a nice calf massage afterwards from a nice Microsoft Wellness lady \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Followed up with SOSSIDGES. A modern persistence hunt. I ran them down until they threw themselves from the barbecue into my mouth!<\/p>\n

Hannah, Oscar and Paula came along to watch, and I met Colin<\/a>‘s lovely wife, who came to check out whether I was keeping my word<\/a> \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

It was a lot of fun. The stoney bits were challenging but I coped with them OK and finished pretty strong. No idea about my time, because I didn’t remember to time myself. Hardly world-beating ( a lot slower than the “winning” time of something under 19 minutes ), but it felt faster than the 3-mile run in March.<\/p>\n

UPDATE: I should mention the excellent response I got for both the costume and the bare feet. Lots of encouragement, clapping and whooping and “amusing” comments. My favourite, heard a couple of times from different people “it’s depressing when you’re overtaken by a barefoot caveman”. *grin*<\/p>\n

Click on the photo below for the full set on Flickr:<\/p>\n

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