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Scottish Vets Relay
Westerlands first ever outing at the Scottish Vets Relay. Each leg was a 5.9km lap of Strathclyde Loch, starting and finishing at the water sports centre. The Westies team consisted of Chris, Jon Slowe, Don Reid and John Quinn.
I set off with good intentions on Leg 1, and passed through the first kilometre in 3:17, sitting in 5th place for a while. But lack of training and sleep deprivation meant I couldn't sustain this sort of pace, so slumped back down the field to 15th, before rallying at the end to jump past Paul Carroll of Clydesdale and Crispin Walsh of Bella Harriers, to finish in 20:50.
Jon Slowe took over for Leg 2 and ran 20:40 to pull us up to 7th team. Don ran 22:57, dropping 3 places, and finally John Quinn ran the anchor leg nursing a calf strain in 24:02, to bring us home in 13th place.
Posted by Chris Upson on Mon 30 Jan 2012 | 3 comments
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Don said...
First time for me too at this event and I really enjoyed it. Chris looked really knackered when he finished, the joys of parenthood!! - It takes me back. Now I'm just slow because I'm old and decrepit!
Jon Slowe again defied his name and ran a storming leg to put me in amongst the fast guys. Tried to limit the damage and only lost 3 places, 2 of which I was just behind at the finish.
Well done to JQ for nursing a dodgy calf round what is a really fast course.
Next year we should put in 2 teams including a V50 team
Monday 30th January 2012 11.07am
Manny hates XC said...
mmm, I might even be interested in that too?
Well done chaps, good effort and sounds fun keeping Chris awake!
Monday 30th January 2012 7.41pm
Johnston said...
There's a fake John Quinn in the Leg 1 results! Hope our JQ gets time off for good behaviour so that he can recover fully.
Seriously quick Leg 1 by the first female to pip Captain Chris.
Kenny Richmond appears to be confirmed as the latest signing by Shettleston - the Manchester City of Scottish running?
Monday 30th January 2012 10.00pm