I went and ran the 3 Peaks Race yesterday for the first time. A pretty cool course with some decent hills to sort things out amongst the field. I started at a pace i felt i could maintain and ran so i was able to run all the up hills and keep a steady and solid pace throughout the race. A good climb up onto the top of flagstaff to start and i was feeling good, along to Swampy and then down some pretty slippery stuff to get to where you cross the motorway and a climb up the hills onto the top of Mt Cargill (it was here i was feeling strong - a few leppins in the system by now and i charged up tho the top before the decent down through the Mt Cargill walkway and onto the finish at Chingford Park. Coming down off Mt CArgill i really wound it up and enjoyed the thrill of running down the track bordering on olut of control at places just hoping for solid foot strikes on the somewhat greasy track in places.
Anyway as a first go at this race i felt i ran strong and the runnung is feeling good at the moment. My goal was to go under 2hrs30min - i managed to achieve this coming in in 2hrs29min1sec!! this placed me 10th Open man and 17th Overall. Some of those dedicated runners are quick with the winning tim being 2hr4min!!
Anyway this is the link ot the full results,
http://www.leithharriers.com/ThreePeaks/ThreePeaksResults2008.html
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