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Herbert's Hole 10K
How tough is this race? My 15 year old step daughter is running this, and wants to know how hard it will be. And what the hills and terrain is like. I know Chesham well as I grew up there but I'm not sure where the route will take them, apart from up and back down the park and through Herbert's hole. And I have been on the Fetch site and they say the distance is 10.5k. Are the right?
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i have never done over an hour for a 10k before!!
still, amazed i didn't fall over
Yes that was Jade, she certainly knows how to swear, I would have said that was more like 1.5 km than 4. It was her perents she swore at. I was standing about 25 meters before them in a back and yellow Pittsburgh Steelers jacket. She wasn't smiling at the finish when I pointed my camera at her I got told where to go. By the time we had had a drink in the football club she was smiling again. It's amazing how a first place prize can bring such a big smile to soneones face.
Jade ran a hilly on road 9.5 km at buckingham a couple of weeks ago in 46 minutes, this race was about a km futher. you can normally add on about 1 minute a mile for an off road race.
Did you finish just behind Jade. Just wondering as we were talking to a man in the car park before the race, who may have been the dad of the girl who jade finished in front of.
Yes running runs in the family, It was at Pednor 5 that I first meet Sharon then we bumped in to each other at a couple of other races, and became good friends. Becouse we meet through running and it plays such a big part in our lives we named our 21 month old, Asics.
Jade started running fun runs at races Sharon was doing,and then went onto join Hillingdon AC.
Vale of Aylesbury AC will allow kids from the age of nine to train with them. At that age they try to make it more fun than proper training. Get in touch with your local club and see if they have a youth program. How old are your kids?
Sounds as if too young - eldest is 7.
You know anything about the pednor 10 - is it a tough one?
THey maybe a bit young, but at that age they probably do a log of running around anyway.
The pednor 10 is 2 laps of the pednor 5. Running anticlockwise around the pednors. you ran part of the course in the Hurberts hole race, but the wrong way. You go up the on road hill you ran down and down the up. and theer is another good hill you run twice. So it's mainly flat with 4 hills.
Believe me, I'm not tyring to be bigheaded but compared to some of the races i've run 4 hills in 10M is quite flat.
Where are you from I might be able to tell you about some good races in your area.