The event is organised by Shepshed Running Club and amounts
to two laps through the private grounds of the Garendon Park Estate with the start at the
High School. It was never my favourite race due to the terrain which consists
of a grass section at the start, a few tarmac bits but mostly the course is on
gravel paths where the gravel is effectively small boulders. These, if you are
running in inappropriate footwear e.g. thin soled lightweight road shoes, are a bit like
running on a bed of nails e.g. I have the wrong footwear.
As I compete the first lap someone hands me a plastic cup of
water which disintegrates on touch and cascades down the front of my shirt. So
that was no help. What I really needed was someone to hand me my PB dog to pace
me round the second circuit.
I am actually pleased with my time, despite it being three whole
minutes down on 2010, as I went through 10k at an acceptable 45 minutes.
The race is a 500 person sell out although only 429 brave the
rather cold grim conditions. In a nice touch it even starts raining just as we finish. We all thaw out afterwards with coffee in the Home Economics room of the school. That is, if
they still call it Home Economics?
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