Phillip H reports............The 45 miles Tring2Town (T2T) was held on Saturday 10th Feb. This was the second of two events held this year since the first (held in January) was oversubscribed. Angie Sadler and Phillip Howells ran for the club, Phillip's second time but Angie's first. Not only would this be her longest run or race by 10 miles, she was also running it after having had flu with several days in bed earlier in the week! The course is along the Grand Union Canal and is the last 45 miles of the well known 145 miles Grand Union Race from Birmingham to London (the finish of both is Little Venice, about quarter of a mile from Paddington Railway Station). Unlike last year's crisp, dry but cold conditions, this year the race started in heavy rain, which lasted for several hours before a weak but warm(ish) Sun broke through the clouds. Conditions along the canal tow path varied from slushy mud (there was still a fair bit of melting snow around) to reasonable firm track, but all 'off-road' type conditions. It is actually mainly an interesting and varied route, very scenic in parts. After a steady start, Angie got into her stride and showed she has lost none of her brilliant early season form with an excellent time of 7 hours 41minutes for 19th place overall, 3rd lady, 2nd vet lady - she was awarded the 2nd lady trophy on the one person one prize rule and was delighted with the result - a great psychological boost in preparation for running the 56 miles Comrades Marathon in S Africa in June. Since Phillip was chauffeur, she then had to wait several hours for him to finish! On a decidedly 'off' day with hip and hamstring problems he'grovelled' for the first 35 miles, before 'getting going' (after a sit down with 10 miles to go and a stern self-talking too!) to storm the last 8 miles in just over an hour, the last 4 in 30 minutes (a pace that would have givena top 10 place had he been up to it from the start!). His finish time was 9-58, which was just inside his slowest target time, and despite the hardgoing, was still a 7 minute personal best time!! He was 52nd of 61 finishers. So honour reasonably satisfied and for both runners, tired but elated at the achievement.With Adrian (Lavery) we now have the 35 miles Draycote Water Race to relish this coming weekend!