Martin & Sarah: Finish line so near yet so far ...

Martin Good and Sarah van der Kley

Breakfast with Martin & Sarah on The Hits 89.5

There comes a point in every adult's life when they are pushed too far. They reach their limit and there's nothing to do but throw a wobbly.

For Sarah, that moment arrived during the Country2Coast. Martin committed to walking the 15km and was concerned his knee might cause some difficulty; he even tried to persuade someone to walk beside him for a piggy back if necessary, a job for which (surprisingly) there were no takers. However, Martin's knee held up and he completed the walk with ease.

In fact, he was strolling along at a comfortable pace when Sarah dragged herself past him at about the 14km mark, huffing like a mad woman. Sarah had been training for this run since January, but some knee issues meant she wasn't quite as prepared as she would have liked. She was fine for three-quarters of the course, but started to struggle just before overtaking Martin. The legs were feeling like lead and just lifting her feet felt like trying to escape from quicksand.

And at the 14.7km mark, Sarah stopped. She actually stopped, right in the middle of the track and told her running partner she couldn't go on. Her running partner looked at her like she was mad and exclaimed: "Don't be stupid, there's like 50m to go."

Sarah wasn't buying into this. She stamped her feet and argued that no, they'd stuffed up the course and they still had to go over the bridge and down the road a couple of clicks to get to Farndon Park.

Her running partner grabbed her wrist and tried to pull her along but Sarah insisted she couldn't continue.

"Fine then," said her running partner, and left her standing on the track by herself.

After a couple of seconds, Sarah realised she was acting rather childishly (and really had no choice but to finish) and somehow managed to make her feet move forward again.

It was shortly after that Sarah finally grasped her running companion was correct; she was in fact only 50m from the finish line and the bridge that she was travelling under was the Clive bridge, not the bridge by Hohepa Cheese as Sarah's addled brain had concluded.

So her time could have been a little better had she not thrown a tantrum but, hey, the aim was to run 15km, and (aside from that small break) she did it.

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