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Derwentwater 10
Fresh from cuffing Mark in the relays on Saturday, I lined up with 500+ runners crushed into Keswick market square at Sunday lunchtime. The usual mad sprint start, before things started to settle down. First mile of 5:31 seemed a bit unlikely.
The route does a clockwise loop of Derwentwater, so the worst of the hills are in the second half. I was vaguely hoping to do sub-60, but seeing as I went through halfway at 29:16 it was looking unlikely. The 6th mile has a big hill which knocks around a minute off your pace.
After skirting around under Catbells there's a pleasant enough run in back through Portinscale, before a long straight flat finish, where you can steadily ramp up the speed to a sharp left turn and sprint finish. Didn't quite do enough for sub-60.
1. Stephen Hepples 50:16
2. Haggai Chepkwony 50:28
3. Simon Booth 53:13
28. Chris Upson 1:00:26
539 runners
Full results at:
http://www.keswick-ac.org.uk/race%20index.html
Posted by Chris Upson on Wed 10 Nov 2004 | 3 comments
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Knackered Swaz said...
Chris, Don't you ever rest ?I get tired just reading your reports...
Wednesday 10th November 2004 11.05am
Phast Boy said...
Chris your race report quota is set at 30 races this year so you have been warned.
Wednesday 10th November 2004 12.03pm
Chris said...
Sorry about that. I think I've done 60 races so far this year, so slightly over quota.
Wednesday 10th November 2004 1.12pm