Tell you what - we'll get a gurney and you can sleep and we'll push you! It's along the lines of a stroller.

The advantage of doing a race at 8am on your coast is that my body will think it is a more decent hour of 11. This gives me hope.

While my body will think it's 6:00 pm, which I don't look forward to with any particular hope.

My body never knows what time it is.

Aint no way in hell I'm doing B2B.

Happy to cook a nifty lunch for those who want to come over afterward, though, provided I get some help cleaning up the hospitality suite before checkout time Sunday.

So, just a second - this race is happening at the same time as the F2F? Is that right?

thinks

...there is no way in hell I'm going to be fit enough to run it by May, even if I make it to SF. But I suppose I could conceivably walk it. In Fancy Dress.

thinks

I'll need to practice hills, though. I'm shite at hills. Flats, no bother...hills, otoh, equal wheezy death in the world of me.

Quite exciting to have this as a goal, though. Hmm...

Wait, so there's possibly Fay at the next F2F? Excellent.

the 8AM time is kinda killing me. I will have been in SF for a week or so at that point, so thoroughly adjusted to the time change. Can we start late?

(sitting back and planning apres race menu)

Yeah, this 8-am-on-the-day-after-Prom thing might not work so well for me. Does everyone start at 8, or do some people join in later? I would be totally down with walking part (or maybe all) of the course with a group that started a little later. (In costume, naturally.)

Why not hook up with the group after the arduous/steep bits have been done? You've all got cell phones, yes? You could coordinate.

The front of the pack - the actual runners start at 8am. It takes a while for the mass of people to move for the strollers (strolling people, not baby-prams) to make it across the start line. Not sure how long, but if I remember correctly I've heard them report that the first runners have finished before the last people crossed the start...