Three carnethy vests. The race kicked off the start of the day’s festival. I baulked at inflated prices for the run on trails that I run regularly as they are a couple of miles from home. But travel was easy, I cycled, Craig ran. So it was a late decision to enter on the day, a little unprepared.
Well organised and marked race with an excess of marshals. Foxlake run a professional venue, I’ve been swimming and played disc golf there too.
It was my first running race this year other than the FRAs. Perfect conditions, vest and shorts. There were a few canine assisted runners – as I faded in the second half of the race I could have done with being pulled along.
Although this was my home patch there was plenty of the route I don’t normally run, mostly as it’s not so interesting, but a race is always different from training. I even managed to wipe out on a slippery bridge, unused to running in my elderly walshes. My estimate of 58 minutes was accurate; I was just ahead of Craig, and Allan Renville was three minutes after him. Results http://www.webscorer.com/racedetails?raceid=33494
What stood out was the balance of men and women, almost 50:50.
There are three other races in the series, including a 10 km night run. See https://www.facebook.com/foxtrailrun?ref=ts&fref=ts
Mark James