Stephen R wrote (see) I was just looking in the Ratings section, and there was this one from Nicola Ansley In short: I found this quite a dull run which is disappointing for my first race. In full: Not a huge number of competitors, Tarmac cycle path track. There were over 500 finishers, and I don't recall seeing a Tarmac…
I was towards the front and was lucky with the horses on the first lap, but it was obviously going to cause problems further back. Thing is, all the stables are given lots of very polite notice that there's going to be a runners on the lane between 10:30 and 11:30 or so. It's only once a year that there's a race on the…
Nice event - shame about the horses BUT it did give me a negative split (& if you do such things a course PB) so chasing off to quickly at the start may actually be a bad thing I do agree I don`t think it was the 4th rider`s idea to go down the track when we were there - she did look very, very nervous. I have a 2010…
LOVED the race today. 1hr18 I think, not sure. Didn't hear the claxon thing go off and then I actually had to walk for 2/3 mins due to the horses bolting and almost throwing their riders. Some just ran on past which made it worse. Yes I was looking for a good time but not at the expense of the poor riders. I think as…