The first race was Harrogate which was
a 10k race, now my only problem was with my busy life and finding it
hard to train for the last 7 months and with only the gym work and
few evening league races under my belt I didn't know how the race was
going to go. We got there in plenty of time and i picked up my number
went and got changed back at of the car. The race started on a narrow
road and everyone was trying to get by and we had to contend with a
hill at the start and Ian passed me but I thought I may or may not
catch him up. There was a few more tough hills and to make matters
worse we had to do 2 laps I did catch Ian up and overtook him and
kept him at a good distance in front and pushing very hard in the
last part of the race I got overtook by a few people just near the
finish I just didn't have anything left in my legs and I also got a
PB on this course by 3 min.
My second race was the handicap race at
Otley where I was told I was starting 7:33:30 but when I got there
the timekeeper said it was 7.32.30 and not 7.33.30 so I was going to
argue and I set off with the rest of the group so tonight race was 1
lap with the exception of doing the field twice I quite enjoyed the
race a part from the field bit and I managed to overtake people that
I don’t normally overtake in a handicap race so I must be
improving, I came 8th and we got a bottle of beer at the
end of the race the food was lovely and very well marashalled
well done, great running Phil
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