The day after I ran the Nottingham half marathon, I started to have a cough. I chalked this up to just post race exhaustion, since after unusually long and/or hard workouts, I sometimes get a little cough. This cough didn't go away though. In fact, it steadily got worse. I took the entire week off running. On Sunday the 23rd, I was still coughing. However, I'd told all my Harrogate Harrier friends I was running the Theatre race, and I still really wanted to do it. That morning found me at Valley Gardens with my running friends, waiting for the race to start.

I actually did quite well, running about 55:45 for the 6.1 mile course. The course was all hills, but ironically still a fast course. My friends and I were all pleased, all of us having finished in under an hour. I'm especially pleased, now knowing I had bronchitis at the time! Running that race probably wasn't the smartest thing in the world to do, but I actually had fun doing it.