Regular readers will know that Caz and I have been following a "Couch to 5K" programme. Well today Caz ran her first 5K race. It was the Dubai Women's Run held on The Palm Jumeirah. It was an early start; we needed to be there by 6am, with the start scheduled for 7am! We decided to stay overnight last night to avoid an even earlier start from Abu Dhabi. We book a hotel apartment at one of the apartments on The Palm. It was really lovely, and quite reasonable compared to hotel rates and we actually preferred having more space and a more informal environment.
Still dark when we arrived!
For 1300 lady runners, they provided 6 toilets! Not a good ratio I wouldn't say. Needless to say the ladies hijacked the Men's too! And Caz tells me the bushes behind were in full use too!
All the ladies gathering.... pretty in pink (well mostly!)
There was good prize money on offer, so there was a serious race going on too. The ladies running the 10K race went off first followed by the 5k runners. The winner of the 10K did it in 34 mins something and the 5K in 16 mins something - good going!
Caz did an absolute sterling job coming home in 40 mins dead. Once the sun came up it was actually quite hot which made the going quite tough, so for her first race she did great I think!
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