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Millport 10-mile Road Race
The rain and gale force winds made for challenging conditions at this year's Round Cumbrae 10-miler. My plan before the start was to tuck in with Garscube runners Euan Geddes and John Bell, and shelter for as long as possible. I managed to run almost to 4 miles with John and Euan before I started to fade, or they pressed on.
I went through 5 miles almost bang on 29 minutes, so knew that sub 1 hour was unlikely. The run down the west side of the island was into the teeth of a gale the whole way, virtually stopping you in your tracks. I could see that Euan had passed David Simpson of Corstorphine, and John was closing on David as well. I tried to visualise catching John, but the wind was grinding me down. With just under a mile to go I suddenly realised that Euan McIntosh was barreling down on me. This spurred me into action to finally pass David Simpson and start the charge for the finish line. I had several attempts at dropping Euan as we came back into Millport, but with 600 metres to go he put in the decisive break.
Only the first 5 runners got under the hour. I finished 8th in 1:00:56. The race was won by Stuart Gibson of Cambuslang in 53:08.
Posted by Chris Upson on Mon 12 Sep 2011 | 2 comments
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Cam said...
Is your positioning of the second photo intentional Chris? It looks like one photo with you doing your usual sprint start, even leading the lead cyclist!
Tuesday 13th September 2011 1.34pm
Chris said...
Ah yes, it does look a bit like I've overtaken the lead bike, but closer inspection will show that for once I was being tactical and sheltering in the pack.
Tuesday 13th September 2011 3.22pm