So the big
day finally came and Team GirlieGuide took to the streets of Dublin to compete
in the Flora Women’s Mini Marathon.
This was the first outing for Team GirlieGuide and I am eternally grateful to my lovely Girlies for their hard work, training and commitment to the Team!!
Team GirlieGuide
Needless to
say that with the streets lined with some 40,000 plus women, we had a brilliant
day!!
Our
fundraising attempts this year were in aid of Make a Wish Ireland who provided
us with the lovely pink t-shirts, very apt for the Girlies, and hosted a great
pre-race event, with zumba warm up classes, food and activities for all the
family!!
We couldn’t
have asked for more, after three days of persistent rain (Irish summer style)
we had an absolutely glorious day for the entire event – Irish farmer tans all
round!!
Blue Sky!!
It was a
slow start, with so many woman crammed into the narrow city streets, it took us
20 minutes to get to the start line and couldn’t really set any kind of decent
pace until about 3k into the race when the crowd started to spread out a bit. So we basically rambled and had a good oul
natter as women do!! And thanks to the
on street entertainment, bands, singers and crowds cheering on, the time seemed
to fly by and before we knew it we could smell the finish line....yes the smell
of food cooking about 2K out from the finish line was torture not to mention
all the people standing outside the pubs with their cold beers!!!
Bit of a tight squeeze!!
So needless
to say when we crossed that glorious finish line, collected our medals and
bags, we too went for a nice cold beer, well we deserved it.....
Victorious Team GirlieGuide
The After-Party
