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Really enjoyed the race despite (because of?) difficulty of course. Organisation was great as was the atmosphere. Enjoyed the announcer’s impression on Norman Collier at start but would have liked a full lap of track at end to finish.
This was only my second race - I took up running last year after "retiring" from football as getting too old (42) and too many injuries, wish I'd done it sooner. As a novice, I was looking at the mile markers to pace myself and agree with others who queried the accuracy – I gave up trying to use the mile markers fairly early. Nevertheless finished in 1hour 5mins 24secs which is a pb as my only other race was the Wilmslow half marathon (I found Wilmslow easier than this).
This leads me to the question, was the race really 10 miles?
This was only my second race - I took up running last year after "retiring" from football as getting too old (42) and too many injuries, wish I'd done it sooner. As a novice, I was looking at the mile markers to pace myself and agree with others who queried the accuracy – I gave up trying to use the mile markers fairly early. Nevertheless finished in 1hour 5mins 24secs which is a pb as my only other race was the Wilmslow half marathon (I found Wilmslow easier than this).
This leads me to the question, was the race really 10 miles?
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Fair enough they were forced to change the course at a late date, but they also said it was officially measured and certified.
I'm saying it was as much as 400m short, so if you had done a lap of the track to finish it would've been about right and I would've still got a pb (1.06.30-ish?). I'd rather run long than short.
Other than that it was a great race.
Apparantly, the start was moved further around the track because something wouldn't reach on the morning of the race when the mile markers were already in place. So the first mile was longer than it should have been and the last one shorter.
Perhaps Beav can come on to clarify.
I enjoyed it too
I'll be far away from Chseter on Boxing Day anyway.