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Hmmm, a challenge on our own turf? Who’s in? Cornwall Orienteering
Cornish Glass and Glazing Grand Prix Series, 2012
Saturday 16th June 2012, 6.30pm
Description
5m road race, the 7th race of the 2012 GP.
Organised by St Austell Running Club: “Chiuldren’s fun run before the main race. Post race disco and karaoke.”
Not run this race before? Find out what it was like last year: Race Report
Entry fee
£10.00 affiliated, £12.00 unaffiliated + £2.00 for entry on the day
Booking a place
Alison Joslin, our GP co-ordinator, will take TRC entries on a Wednesday club night, or via email, which will save you all the form filling! If you book your place through Alison please ensure that she receives your payment (made out to St Austell Running Club) by Wed 6th June 2012. You will need to collect your race number from the TRC registration desk at the race hq before 6pm when the desk will close.
If you wish to enter yourself please download the entry form and return as instructed on the form: pdf
Please remember that if you wish to compete in the GP series you must wear your TRC vest and no MP3 players are allowed. GP regulations state that failure to comply will result in disqualification.
Other Races in the Series
Cornish Glass and Glazing Grand Prix Series, 2012
Tuesday 29th May 2012, 7.30pm
Description
5m road race, the 6th race of the 2012 GP.
Organised by Newquay Road Runners: “ A 2 lap road run, starting in the village. The Cubert 5 mile course is renowned for being quite a fast course, therefore providing local runners with the opportunity of posting a quick time without having to journey further afield.”
Changing, registration and post race results at Cubert School.
Not run this race before? Find out what it was like last year: Race Report
Entry fee
UKA members £10.00 Non club runners £12.00 Closing Date for postal entries: 22nd May 2012 Entries on day £2 extra. Only pre-entered runners can be guaranteed a memento on race day
Booking a place
Alison Joslin, our GP co-ordinator, will take TRC entries on a Wednesday club night, or via email, which will save you all the form filling! If you book your place through Alison please ensure that she receives your payment (made out to Newquay Road Runners) by Wednesday 23rd May 2012. You will need to collect your race number from the TRC registration desk at the race hq before 7pm when the desk will close.
If you wish to enter yourself please download the entry form and return as instructed on the form: Cubert 5 Entry 2012 (pdf)
Please remember that if you wish to compete in the GP series you must wear your TRC vest and no MP3 players are allowed. GP regulations state that failure to comply will result in disqualification.
Other Races in the Series
Cornish Glass and Glazing Grand Prix Series, 2012
Wednesday 11th July 2012, 7.30pm
Registration at TRICKYS, Redruth, from 5.30pm
Description
4m road race, the 8th race of the 2012 GP.
Organised by CAC. The race starts outside Tricky’s in Redruth and takes in an undulating route out through Voguebeloth and Illogan before heading uphill back up the dual carriageway to Tricky’s. Stay around after the short, sharp run to catch up with friends at the bar, hog roast and bbq! Free parking, changing facilities and showers all on site.
Not run this race before? Find out what it was like last year: Rachel’s First Time/Is Tony in Love?
Entry fee
Main Race £7.00 (Unattached £9.00). £2.00 extra on the day.
Booking a place
Alison Joslin, our GP co-ordinator, will take TRC entries on a Wednesday club night, or via email, which will save you all the form filling! If you book your place through Alison please ensure that she receives your payment (made out to Cornwall AC) by Wednesday 4th July 2012. You will need to collect your race number from the TRC registration desk at the race hq before 7pm when the desk will close.
If you wish to enter yourself please download the entry form and return as instructed on the form: Summer Turkey Trort 2012 Entry Form (.doc)
Please remember that if you wish to compete in the GP series you must wear your TRC vest and no MP3 players are allowed. GP regulations state that failure to comply will result in disqualification.
Other Races in the Series
Bocconoc, 6th May 2012
Boconnoc looked promising. It had been raining during the week and this is the 2nd race in the new Multi Terrain Race Series: multi terrain + rain = mud! And the team were not disappointed, it was literally knee-deep in places. 5 miles through beautiful park and woodland with views out to rolling countryside provided the perfect backdrop, with warm, and finally dry weather the icing on the cake. Race numbers had swelled this year to 280+ from 180 last year, perhaps already proving what a success the new Series will be. But this year, with more feet churning up the tracks, it would definitely be a muddy one…
The prospect of getting down and dirty didn’t stop plenty of us TRCers turning out and the team included a number of first-time racers in its ranks: Katie Sharp, Karen Goundry, Julia Maskell, Jo Bales and Pip Mortimer who all put in good steady performances. Julia finished her first ever race in style coming home 2nd lady in her category (under 20s) – what a way to finish, brilliant, well done Julia! It was a good day for the TRC under 20′s all round with Tabitha Allen taking 1st place in a very impressive 0:41:06, congratulations Tabby! Most of the first timers came home with big smiles, except Karen, running with her husband Andy, who reports that she “moaned all the way round” and didn’t know how Andy put up with her! Still, we have a sneaking suspicion she’ll be back for more…
 Tabby  Julia The team was well represented ‘on the podium’ in other categories too with Alison Joslin, Helen Dunstan, Nick Jeans, Jon Ford-Dunn and Gordon Adie all taking prizes (see details in the results below). Helen’s on a roll lately and puts her impressive recent success down to Saturday morning training runs at Boscawen Park, with the grey hounds – could there be a lesson there for us all?! Well done Helen, keep up the good work!!! We also welcome James Lloyd back on the racing circuit after months of recovering from achilles injuries and it should of course be mentioned that, whilst not picking up any prizes this time, Philip Clelland was first home for the club in a fast 0:31:43, taking 10th position overall – go Truro, woohooo!!!
The smiles in the post race team photo say it all: Boconnoc is a wonderful race, with an undulating (read hilly!), varied course, beautiful scenery and a lively atmosphere. But don’t just take my word for it, read on for Hana’s take on the proceedings. And a review of you know what!!!!
 The Boconnoc Team - the big one! TRC Get Dirty
Today’s race at Boconnoc is the 2nd anniversary of when I first attempted to run in a race of any kind. So when I looked out of the bedroom window at the horrid hour of 7am, it was good to see that rain was not pouring out of the sky, like last weekend.
Breakfast eaten, (porridge as usual), pre race housework warm up attempted, but today’s venue is a little further away, so I am having to do the shorter version. The rest will have to wait until later….a post race cool down maybe! Husband that plays golf is off to play………….golf.
9am arrives and Julie my chauffer for today, and great race companion arrives. Quick check to make sure I’ve packed my “run anywhere even through mud” running shoes and we are off. It will take about an hour to get to Boconnoc, but this gives us a good chance to catch up, as we haven’t seen each other since……well Friday evening.
 The Obelisk The gate house to Boconnoc appears with a sign directing us through the gateway and down the usual route. We travel through this beautiful estate, passing the huge obelisk. I start to wonder where that obelisk came from and what the history is behind it? Must “google” it some day. [123 feet high, erected in 1771 by Thomas Pitt, 1st Lord Camelford, in memory of his wife’s uncle and benefactor, Sir Richard Lyttelton - more history of Boconnoc can be found on their website!]
As we drive down the last ¼ mile, out of the thicket to our right, appear two large doe’s running at full throttle. If we had been a second or two earlier, it would have been venison for dinner tonight. Yummy! I wonder if the two old DEARS in the car can run that fast? Anyway, Julie safely allowed the deer to pass and we headed towards the field that acts as the car park for the day.
In the car park we meet Nick and today he is modelling a very fine, off the shoulder black bin bag number and very chic it is too. Out comes the camera, and sexy pose is struck. Nick you could find yourself on the centre page of…………….farmers weekly!
Now, I knew that today I was under pressure, not to do well in the race, but on the quality and accuracy of last year’s race report. The main topic of discussion being, the TOILETS!
To my horror, as we get out of the car we are told to walk a different route to the registration point, due to a wedding that took place the day before. Ahhhhh this could only mean one thing……. “Andy’s loo’s” had returned. The green Tardis type boxes with push pull flushing mechanism and that familiar aroma of whatever the blue stuff is in the toilet bowl [Elsan fluid?!!!]. No beautifully refurbished toilets that we had the use of last year. My readers will be let down, should I hide or just take the flack. Flack it was to be, with one of the Newquay readers broaching the subject first.
So I formally apologise to everyone reading this, but the toilet situation was out of my control!
We find Alison sheltering from the chill wind blowing, in one of the farm buildings, and I collect my race number for today….I’m now runner number 11, definitely not my age. I get a text from Steph saying she maybe late, then another to say she is lost, but before I can answer the second one, she arrives with her nice new barefoot running shoes on. [Ahem, Steph would like to say she texted Hana to say she was IN Lost (ie Lostwithiel), NOT lost!!!]
They may change colour today I fear, but at least they will look seasoned!
A very large gathering of TRC runners appear, we are multiplying at each race and pleasantries are exchanged….in some cases, but I did hear one say, “so where are these great toilets?” ahhhhhhh!
 Hana 'Loo' Clitherow! The start is at its usual location, not far from the gate to the main Boconnoc house. The crowd of runners that have gathered is much larger than the last two years and I wonder if we are making enough noise to wake the newly weds……who are preventing us from using the TOILETS!
 Do they pass the inspection?! The pre race briefing cannot be heard as everyone is talking, but soon I hear 3..2..1..and then the mega phone lets out some football chant and we are off.
It’s a bit of a squeeze and picking up any pace is nigh on impossible, unless you are one of the elite runners at the front (Gordon is in that lot). Down hill along tarmac we run, which is good, but I can’t pass the gaggle of women in front who are merrily chatting. Why didn’t they do that in the car driving up?
We turn right and continue along more tarmac before then entering the woods. I had heard the words “mud” “knee deep” “ford” “ankle deep” during the pre race briefing and now these words were starting to make full sentences. The first being, “Oh my goodness, that ford looks like the water is ankle deep” Squelch, left foot now fully submerged and it takes me back to walking in wellies full of water as a child, who had slipped over in the stream. I think this obstacle could have done with being towards the end of the race., to wash the shoes off.
We plough along muddy paths, with me trying to following in the foot steps of the runner in front of me. This is quite hard work, and all I can think of, is that I do not want to turn my ankle, or pick up an injury before my 3 half marathons in 4 weeks, which start in Leeds next weekend.
Ah, a hill, the ground is slightly firmer before returning to a form of tarmac surface. We haven’t used the words “Knee deep” in a sentence yet, I wonder what that is all about.
Well the answer is simply, Mud, lot’s of mud, in rutted well sloshed grooves, in which feet have stomped and rain has gathered being mixed into a gloopy consistency that sucks off shoes. I don’t do mud, I’m a tarmac and dry trail girl, but today this was not going to be an option.
I try running on my tippy toes, going “ooo, ah, ooo” with an occasional squeak thrown in for good measures. My Barbie pink and black, “run anywhere even through mud” trail shoes can’t even be seen, they have disappeared into mud that smells rank and water that there is no way of telling it’s depth, until you have placed your foot into it. Over the ankle and into the shoe was the average depth.
To top it all, some very inconsiderate males then, just as I had found some higher firmer ground, ploughed through the rank mud and water, causing a huge tsunami, which then plastered any part of my legs that weren’t the darker shade of brown, in gloop. To think some people pay to have this sort of stuff rubbed over them for health benefits?
Thankfully I’ve remained upright, the path improves and I see the 4 mile marker. And Claire is just ahead of me. Can I catch her?
Sadly the gloop had been working at my shoe laces without me realising, and a shoe lace malfunction stopped me in my tracks.
Bloody Nora, to think I managed to get through that last section upright, I was now being stopped by a shoe lace. My fingers don’t want to work and after what felt like an eternity I finally get running again. No darn chance of catching Claire now. This is “storm force” all over again.
 Hana crosses the finish line, but was it Hana BC (Before Claire)?!!! One last hill to go up, and the man ahead states he has only half a left leg or was it right, so I suggest that he does the same as me, and walk. The lady behind thinks differently. So whilst I speed walk, she huffs and puffs, sounding more and more in pain until she can take no more, and I walk by with ease. “I told you it was quicker to walk” I say cheerily as I pass her. Stony silence is what I get in return and as I jog off into the distance, I don’t see her again, probably best, as I might be sporting a black eye otherwise.
Quarter of a mile from the finish line and flap flap flap, my bloody shoe lace has come undone again. Well I’m not stopping again, I’ll just have to lift the legs higher and try not to stand on it and fall flat on my face. That woman I passed earlier would have had the last laugh if I did.
As I approach the finish line, I see plenty of TRC shirts already there and looking at Belated birthday Garmin, I am within a couple seconds of last years time of 45:47. Last year it was firm under foot and I was trying to go faster. This year mud, mud glorious mud and I was only trying to stay upright and finish uninjured. I really should do some training then I might improve!
I cheer the other TRC runners in, then it’s off to the car to get the camera so we can have a group photo. In fact a large (for TRC) group photo. We all think the race was great and the common denominator is a broad grin on every one’s face.
A cup of tea is required, so Alison, Julie and I head for the area where tea is being dispensed. 50p a cup…bargain.
Steph was left in the queue for the tap and hose, so she could find her barefoot shoes from under all that mud.
 - Before…
 - After!
So all in all:
- Toilets………………Grrrr back to Andy’s loo’s. Sadly someone else’s special day (wedding) put pay to all you Boconnoc virgins sampling their delightfully refurbished water closets.
- Parking plentiful and well marshalled.
- Marshals. Brilliant. There was no way you could have got lost, and all of them wore a smile.
- The race course/route. Delightful in a masochistic sort of way. Mud wrestling would have followed as a reserve sport for today.
- Goodie bag. Well Boconnoc/St Johns ambulance water bottle. This makes water bottle number two for this year and I have a plentiful supply at home already. I may make a mobile out of them to scare the wood Pigeons away very soon. They wouldn’t work very well as wind chimes would they?
- would I do the race again…………I will have to do it for as long as I run races, as it is my anniversary race and the Boconnoc estate is just so beautiful.
Hana
Results
Open Competition
Men
- 0:29:10 Dan Rodgers, Launceston RR
- 0:29:48 Dan Alsop, STARC
- 0:30:00 Tony Brewer, Mile High
Women
- 0:35:42 Lucy Mencer, Benfleet RC
- 0:36:09 Revis Crowle, ECH
- 0:38:00 Emma Murray, STARC
Overall Results
Boconnoc 5 race results – 2012
TRC Results
to follow
Gallery
to follow
 The Truro Half Marathon committee are pleased to announce that this year we’ll be supporting Cornwall Air Ambulance and donating a substantial amount to the Trust from proceeds from the Truro Half Marathon race entries.
It costs £1.7 million pounds a year just to keep the helicopter flying and with no sign of funding from central government Cornwall Air Ambulance Trust rely entirely on fundraising and would be grounded without it!
“The County of Cornwall lends itself to a service of this kind. We have a widely scattered population, remote and isolated communities, and in the summer months, our road networks become congested very easily, making the use of conventional ambulances more difficult. Our beaches, cliff tops, moorland and the sea attract many people, some of whom participate in water sports and extreme sports, a vital part of our tourism and leisure economy, but which also increases the incidence and severity of accidents.” (Cornwall Air Ambulance website.)
At least one member of the club knows someone that has been helped by the service and the committee wanted to support a charity that would benefit local people, so we hope you’ll be proud that we’ll be helping in some small part to keep the Air Ambulance flying this year!
Truro Half Marathon race entry forms will soon be available on the website, so come back soon for more news!
After a few days recovering Nigel Knuckey, our esteemed club secretary, has regained enough energy to tell us what it was like for him in London this year:
 Nigel Thoughts on the London Marathon
35,000 runners- elite athletes, club runners, charity runners, some in fancy dress, set off in near perfect conditions. I was raising money for the Bobby Moore Fund for bowel cancer research.
The atmosphere was fantastic. There was massive public support throughout the course with bands along the route lifting the runner’s spirits.
In the first half things were going well, I was on track for my optimistic target of a sub four hour time. But the pace started to slip. At thirteen miles I was a bit off target, just over two hours.
Half way round a “senior” female runner approached me saying “it looks as though you are feeling the pain as well” and shot off in the distance. A real confidence booster! Obviously it looked as though I was already struggling.
I had “Nigel” on my vest. Groups of spectators were chanting “Nigel, Nigel”, “Make Bobby (Moore) proud” and the like. I think they were feeling sorry for me. I looked like someone who needed a lot of encouragement.
I was looking out for my family who had a St.Piran flag (there were a lot of them). I saw former club members, Rachel Thomas and Mel James, waving their flags cheering the runners on. At mile 15 and 18 I caught sight of Jo, Tom and Lamorna, who were a welcome sight.
I finished in 4hours 36minutes, beaten by a guy in a mankini. Ouch! I did manage not to be beat a by a mole though. I was disappointed with my time, 50 minutes slower than Berlin 3 years ago and way off target.
It was a great weekend. I am glad I did it, despite my poor performance.
Never mind, hey. There is always next year to redeem myself if I can get a place.
After the race I met up with Jo and the kids at the Bobby Moore Fund reception. I was thanked by Stephanie Moore, Bobby’s widow who set up the charity. I had a massage. The masseuse suggested my muscles were tight. I pointed out that I had run 26 miles.
We travelled back on the train for a relaxing hot bath and a very welcome G and T.
Nigel
All TRC London Marathon results can be found here.
Whilst TRC had a great showing in London at the weekend, other TRCers were doing us proud just down the road at the 2nd Enys 10k. Here’s Hana’s latest report with some great photos from Tony and Lynne.
 The Enys Team Seeing Red!
Last year I was unable to enter this race, and when I saw the photo’s of TRC runners and the scenery around them, I decided it would be a “must do” this year. I think I deleted the memory in my hard drive (that’s my brain to you and me) of the fact that the area around Enys is HILLY.
Oh well it’s only 5 miles.
So the night before I pick up the entry sheet and directions on how to get to the Race HQ and notice the words “10 K” ahhh, that means 1 mile more than I had expected, but at least it wasn’t a marathon.
Pre race fuelling was to be a nice healthy salad, but had to be placed in the fridge, as it’s off to Truro Squash club, to watch husband at home, who plays golf and squash, play in the final of the clubs’ plate side of their championship. I must add that the first time he played in this final was in 1988 when some of you might not have even been a twinkle in your mother’s eye. Daughter who doesn’t run, was!
Well the bloody championship ended up including the Racket ball championship, and for those of you who have no idea what this game is, it is like squash, with rackets with larger heads, smaller shafts and they play with a tennis size very BOUNCY ball. The matches go on for ever and ever.
This meant healthy salad was left, pre race carbo loading ended up being two large G & T’s and a plate of pastry stuff from the buffet that you think tastes good as it enters the mouth, but lands heavy and you regret later. Too late to worry, damage has been done.
Sunday morning arrives, & 7am alarm goes off. Porridge is eaten. I then decide last week’s pre race “Housework” warm up seemed to work, so I decided that is what I would do today. Oh how I like local races with 11am starts.
Sidney Skoda and myself head off along the A39 to Treluswell and the signs showing us how to reach the race HQ. I notice some cyclists on good looking racing bikes, so give them a wide birth. Good job too, as as I draw level with them, the lead rider decides they need to ride two abreast. That was very stupid, they could have ended up under a less observant driver’s tyres.
Race HQ was reached via Truro Hill and a short country lane drive, before being stopped by a marshal. He informed me, that I needed to drive slowly down the track, as the bull was in the field and they didn’t want him spooked. Thankfully the Bull, was surrounded by a lot of lovely lady cows, so he was otherwise preoccupied. Perhaps they had a twinkle in their eyes.
The car park was looking interesting. Sidney sport Skoda, with low profile tyres, was not looking happy. Narrow gateway, granite posts and deep mud tyre tracks half filled with builders rubble with a field beyond. If I got into this field, would I ever get out?
Phew. Safely parked, bag unloaded then I spot Julie, Tony and Graham. I have some company on the short walk to where we pick up our race numbers. I’m No 202.
Registration is very quick and easy, but no Alison today. I suppose the poor girl does deserve a Sunday off, from time to time. Julie and I also buy raffle tickets. We usually do well in this department when it comes to Rotary organised races!
Gordon appears, and gives us a briefing on the course. Urgh…not sounding too good. I hear the word “down” followed by “up” then “down and up” and “undulating” and then “hill that you think you have reached the top of, but no it still goes on”. I almost think the London marathon sounds more favourable…..not really, just joking! But I do wonder how Nigel, Lynn, Helen and Stuart are doing?
So up the muddy track we drove down, we walk. With me casually glancing over to where the very large South Devon bull is lying down chewing the cud. Thank god for that, a sprint at this point would have been hard. As we reach the road and congregate as a group of 5 (Gordon had disappeared) plus Maisie the club mascot, a West Briton photographer takes our photo….famous at last!
The start line is out on the road, with a slight up hill start to the race. I don’t like up hill starts, I’m more of a “down hill girl”. A short briefing from the race organizer and we are off. Lungs aren’t happy, coughing has started and I can see Graham, and Tony speeding off ahead of me. Oh well, nothing I can do about that, but then a woman who looks about my age in white T shirt over takes me, and for some reason it was like a “red flag to a bull”. She is not wearing a team shirt, and she is now my challenge for this race. WHY?
We go up, then down, we turn left and go up, then flat and then down. I pass the lady in the white shirt, then she passes me, and I pass her again at about mile 3. Coughing has stopped, legs feel OK and I haven’t had to walk at all. I dare not look behind to see where this lady in the white T shirt is, but I keep hearing rustling.
We are now running along a sort of flat bit past a farm, and the road reflects this. I leave the image to your imagination.
Sharp left and up we go again. I recognise this road, as being the top end of Truro Hill and check belated birthday Garmin. 1 mile to go. I feel good, legs feel fine, left foot feels great. What more could I ask for.
I see marshals ahead, and now it is off down a muddy track to the finish line. I tip toe around some of the puddles on this 800 m section of the course and wonder if I should have worn my trail shoes. There is loads of squelchy mud and I really don’t want my road shoes to end up the colour of this track.
Flags ahead, finish line in sight and I dare not look behind to see if the lady in the white T shirt is catching me up. Phew, line crossed in 53 mins. No record breaking time, but I have really enjoyed this run, and with no rain at all.
Graham is already in as is a TRC runner called Chris (much younger than me I’d like to add). No Tony as he pulled out at mile 2 with his ongoing injury causing him problems, but I did give him a consolation hug. Julie follows in shortly after and we never see Gordon. He is so fast that he has finished and gone before any of us crossed the finish line. Must be that “Morris dancing” warm up he does.
Time for a cuppa. Lovely small Tea room, with a great selection of home made cakes. Tea for two purchased and slab of carrot cake for one (me) with bone china cups and saucers I may add. We find a bench in the sun to collasp onto it. Graham soon joins us and the race becomes a lovely social gathering, much like “Boconnoc”. Bliss.
Quick, the raffle is being drawn….Julie and I sprint over to the registration area to hear the numbers being called, leaving poor Graham alone to look after the tea trays. Sorry Graham! Well we may not win races or age category’s, but we are ace at raffles. I win a bottle of red wine, and Julie a home made cake! Go girls go!
The prizes are awarded, none for Julie and myself, or Graham or Chris, but Gordon does it again!
Now it is time to get Sidney Skoda out of the car park/ field. Narrow gate with granite posts has got narrower, but we pass through it gingerly. Now the route out of Enys becomes a problem. The track we are sign posted up as exit, is grid locked. So some manoeuvring is required and a worse track has to be negotiated. Poor Sidney Skoda is having a hard day, but we get out and I was so pleased to see a metalled road once again.
So all in all:
would I do this race again……YES!
- Car parking……plentiful but not for the feint hearted or Sidney Skoda come to that.
- Marshalling and registration……brilliant.
- Toilets. Scarce, but clean. Due to low race entrant numbers, very short queue. NO showers though!
- Water stations…one, which I passed without stopping, as usual.
- Goodie bag. Draw string shoe bag, bottle of water, banana and a medal. Not brilliant but it is a charity fund raising event.
- Tea room………fantastic. It was so good to see beautiful home made cakes and tea in a tea pot. Very good value as well.
Hana
TRC Results
- Dodwell, Helen (GBR) 03:56:51
- Donohue, Lynne A (GBR) 04:09:16
- Griggs, Paul (GBR) 05:20:36
- Knuckey, Nigel J (GBR) 04:36:39
- Mitchell, Nigel M (GBR) 03:00:40
- Musson, Stuart N (GBR) 03:53:56
- Sowerby, Peter J (GBR) 02:58:40
- Turner, Dave J (GBR) 03:00:53
- Westlake, Samantha L (GBR) 03:26:45
As Pete, Helen, Lynne, Nigel and Paul line up in London today in perfect cool, dry weather here’s Mark Maidwell-Smilth’s perspective on the weather in Boston last week!
Boston Marathon 2012
It was horribly hot – Of 27000 entrants Boston organisers offered anyone deferment to next year – about 4000 dropped out at that stage - around another 1000 failed to finish – 2000 needed some medical support – 100 were still in hospital the day after!! No one died.
For the elite runners it was the slowest win time for 20 years – The temperature at my non-elite start at 11am was 86 F hitting 89 F by noon and I am sure was hotter just after. The fire department converted the hydrants to sprinklers!! Finished 4.04.27 which I am pleased with but was hoping to go faster, but rather be alive. Boston is great city.
Bit jet lagged in work but no one seemed to notice. [Mark is a dentist!]
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