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Yateley 10k series Race 1 1/6/11

Nick Cook  writes:

There was a good WVR presence at the first Yateley 10k this year, with a lot of the usual suspects running.  I got there much too early, so sat in the car with a Paloma Faith CD on whilst playing Angry Birds on my phone.  I wandered over to the registration area at about 6:30 and met up with Richard, Colin and Chris . We saw some of the others on the field later.

It wasn’t quite so hot or thundery as it can be on these races, so it was a pleasant temperature for running. The hooter went off on time and we walked along until the crowd before us dispersed a bit and we were able to start running just before the start gantry. I started off at a steady 8:15 pace which I thought might be a bit too fast for me, but I seemed to be coping well so didn’t bother slowing down. Tony overtook me at about 3k with a cheery ‘well done, Nick’, but Richard soon disappeared into the distance.

I haven’t been doing too well with my 10ks over the past couple of years, but with all the swimming and cycling training I’ve been doing for the Windsor Triathlon, I was hoping to do a bit better this year. The uphill stretch at 9k slowed me down a bit (as usual!), but I finished with a chip time of 52:20 which was my best Yateley time for 3 years, so I was really pleased with that. Also, I beat Colin for the first time, so more reason to celebrate! He did say he was suffering with a bit of a bug though, and promised to get his revenge at the August run (I’m on holiday for the July one).

Water and chocolate bars were handed out at the finish and I also won a spot prize, but not the t-shirt I was expecting – only a pen!

Back to the car to check my text messages for the official result (I do like that) and the biggest collection of race flyers ever!!!!

 

Race# Forename Surname Gender GenderPos Category CategoryPos Gun Time Pos Chip Time Rank
                   
436 Peter Mannion Male 34 M40 7 00:39:12 35 00:39:09 35
734 Geoff Williams Male 90 M60 4 00:43:01 97 00:42:59 105
147 Russell Conaway Male 153 M40 40 00:45:51 168 00:45:40 176
188 Chris Dent Male 211 M60 9 00:48:20 238 00:48:11 248
414 Robert Littlejohn Male 222 M50 27 00:48:49 250 00:48:29 258
819 TONY SHERIDAN Male 227 M60 11 00:49:08 258 00:48:20 253
614 RICHARD SHERLOCK Male 274 M50 33 00:51:07 318 00:50:40 323
150 Nick Cook Male 305 M50 43 00:52:55 364 00:52:20 366
237 Yvonne Fossey Female 74 F45 16 00:54:40 415 00:54:11 423
743 Colin Woods Male 385 M50 60 00:57:01 484 00:56:14 490