Maidenhead 10 Results
Some spectacular performances at what was an excellent event at Maidenhead, even if they did send us the wrong way after 200m (it worked out ok in the end, and was still 10 miles).
Well done to Denise for beating the club record by over 3 minutes, to Mark for his ‘big’ PB, and to Kate for winning another Kate award in addition to her PB. If anyone else recorded a PB, or played a sneaky joker, then please let me know.
Welcome back to Katherine, for her first club race since last July. Jane won the wine, and her report follows the results.
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Well the wine’s all gone and the run is now a distance memory, but a deal’s a deal so here’s the report.
Sunday 6 April (Good Friday) dawned bright and cold. I can’t remember if it was -1 or 1 degree when we got into the car after a nice hot bowl of porridge. What to wear is always a dilemma but I had decided to wear thermals underneath my club t-shirt. We picked up Linda and Derek and were soon on the way. In preparation, the night before we had put Maidenhead into the sat nav to give us an idea of how long it was going to take. It wasn’t long before the sat nav was telling us we were there, but the centre of Maidenhead did not seem quite right! A cargument (ask Derek) almost ensued, but we dug out the postcode and were on our way again, and soon arrived, just a bit later than planned.
Unusually, the queues for the mens’ loos were longer than for the ladies and Linda and I got some drinks while we waited for Tony and Derek. It was warming up quickly and one or two of us ladies had a wardrobe change. We got to the start with 5 minutes to spare but the race was delayed by 15 minutes (time for another loo stop). Eventually we were off. But that’s strange, we passed the 1-mile marker within a couple of minutes. We’ve gone the wrong way! It wasn’t long before the faster runners were running back past us and we could wave to our ERR colleagues. However, by the time we had done a couple of laps of the industrial park (not too pretty but had the advantage of seeing Linda and Jane B and family a few times) the 3-mile marker seemed to be in the right place.
The next 7 miles were on minor roads and tracks around fields but I can’t remember many details except it was a pleasant route and flat. As I approached the finish, the announcer was spurring us on to get in under 90 minutes. I managed it (89:09) but was still the last ERR runner – well someone has to be. Others had very good times. Denise had a pb and set up a new club record for 10 miles. Graham Bridges and Mark Schofield also had pbs as did Kate who also got 1st FV65. If I could have a pb at the age of 65, I would be well pleased. Come to that , I’d be pretty happy if I could have one at the age of 54, but that’s not going to happen! At least we had done something to justify those Easter eggs. Oh yes, the bacon butties were pretty good too.
