The focus of our weekend was to relax, to run in the Rome to Ostia half marathon and to celebrate Mrs P's birthday. How the words relaxing and running 13 miles in a half marathon go together in one sentence, I am not sure but it has been fabulous, as any trip to Rome is bound to be.
With the children deposited with happy grand parents we have actually relaxed and also found it odd to be without the kids after spending so much time all together.
The run took place on Sunday, it was a warm spring feeling day and although it was a rather an unimaginitive straight roman road course to the coast from the city, we finished with good times and in good spirits. Powered by a best roman pasta dinner the evening before that was also accompanied by a bottle of nice red wine. I don't believe that drinking wine is the best prep for a long run. But when in Rome... In any case, I managed a sub two hour time (just) at 1hr 59.06 which I was pleased with and Claire being fitter and more competitive managed to finish in 1 hr 51 which doesn't sound much quicker but is actually a whole mile ahead of me!
The highlight of Rome though is always the a aincient history that is everywhere and the food and wine, together with the ambience and abundance of great restaurants. We have loved it!
Now we board our flight home, excited to see our lovely kids and to get ready for the main event of our time off together which as I have said starts tomorrow. We are off to Vietnam. As a lot of our friends and family want to know what we a up to, we will post as often as we can. I have no doubt that our adventures there will be brilliant but our time at home has also been very memorable.
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