Durham Charity 5K

Saturday, February 13, 2010

Dave Robson

I was up early for the Durham 5K charity run which started a bit earlier this year – 10.00. This made it much easier to do it and the Wrekenton cross country. In the car park I met somebody who had been thinking of joining the club and he is going to come down and give us a try, so that was a good start to the day.

Not many of the students had pre-entered, so registration was a bit busy before 10.00 and we made our way to the start a bit after 10.00 and stood and shivered for a while before getting going.

Different course than in previous years, three laps on a well marked and marshalled course on the Maiden castle side of the river. It was all on grass and as the course had been used for juniors the previous day, it was pretty muddy. It was great and the sudden lashing rainfall in the middle of the race made it feel like a normal winter cross country event, but without any hills ! I had challenged my students to race me, but not too many of them turned out, thirteen I reckon with 9 in front of me and 4 behind, so its not costing me very much for the challenge I set them. Overall they had disappointing numbers at the event (and none in fancy dress this year).

As we passed the finish for the first time, I glanced at my Garmin and it was over 8min and it wasn’t a complete lap, but with the cross country coming up, I wasn’t going to push it and I finished in 28min. Afterwards I saw it was over 5.5K so I felt a little better ! Alan Purvis and Louise Billcliffe also ran it and enjoyed it. There are no results for this run.

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