So the 2011 edition of the warriors festival is done and gone. 798 runners gathered around the sea front on Saturday afternoon to do the 10 mile race up Knocknarea Mountain.
I enrolled to run this year, but very conveniently I sprained my ankle a couple of weeks before and I was not fit to participate. Instead I waited for the runners on the finish line with my camera.
It was amazing the different ways people would cross the finish line. From very fit people that looked they could run 10 miles more to those who almost collapsed after the finish line. The ones that ran alone to those that made a point of arriving together with their mates. Sneaky one that raced like lunatics the last yard just to overtake one or two runners. The father who pick up her daughter from the crowd to do the last few meters together. Definitely I have to get no excuses and run next year.
Oh… Have I mentioned the after party. The pubs were packed. The streets were alive until very late hours. Great bands playing at the Marquee. And the buzz… What a buzz.
There is not that much running in this pub… Today there are Only excuses…
apubwithnobeer
30/08/2011
Warriors Run