Countdown!

Well, we did it! The PaddleFree team successfully completed the Bristol 10k on May 9th 2010. Dan was the first in with a time of 59:06 (what a legend!), I came in at 1h:12:20 and Kerri's time was 1h:15:47. Awesome effort all round!!

The day was quite cool, and standing in the 'holding pens' for 45 mins waiting for our start raised more than a few goosebumps! But the cool breeze was very welcome during the run as was the support of the spectators that lined the route. We had celebratory champagne and roast dinner after a well earned shower, and ended the day with an indoor Pimm's pinic (by this time the clouds were spitting at us!) and a film. All in all it was an enjoyable day! I'm not too sure I like the rumblings coming from Dan's direction though, a half marathon in September?!?! Maybe next year!

So now it's down to the paddling business. With less than 20 days to go I take delivery of the kayak this week and have finalised the equipment list. A sea safety course is next on the agenda and then.................we're off!

We're trying ahrd to get media interest and hopefully that should pick up soon. I finish work this week and so will have more time to dedicate to the project. Trying to organise PaddleFree and hold down a full time job, plus out of work commitments hasn't been easy. In fact at times it's seemed damned near impossible. Delegation is the key and now that I have stopped being a crazy control freak the project is running a lot smoother!

Hopefully some more videos to come soon and some more sea practice too.

Sara x