Firstly, I wasn't expecting the Wrekin Road Runners Ennstone 7 race to be preceded by a mile long dash to the start of the race (my fault as I arrived a little late and the car parks we full so ended up parking outside my office) and secondly I wasn't anticipating quite so many hills in the race.
Still, what better way to spend Valentine's Day than to spend it dashing around Telford Town Park in the lovely morning sunshine?
The Ennstone 7 race is a really well organised race with a clearly marked out route, excellent marshalling, a couple of water stations and best of all; a cup of Kathy's wonderful hot soup to look forward to at the end, plus a medal for all finishers.
I thoroughly enjoyed this race, probably as the sun was shining, there was a strong turnout of happy runners and the route itself is really quite pleasant. Something that you don't see on many races is a talking Stegosaurus, but this race takes you right past several talking dinosaurs in the children's area of the park. All of the route in on hard surface utilising the park paths and the start and finish of the race is a lap or so around a track, or bowl. There are several hills en route which are quite manageable but the one at the end is a bit of a killer, however, I managed not to walk it so it can't be that bad.
This was a good race to include in my marathon training schedule, although it did hit me half way round that it is only 9 weeks until my very first marathon, the Shakespeare Marathon at Stratford upon Avon on April 25th 2010. I know I have some serious training to do for that as I can really feel the Ennstone 7 in my legs today :-)
Thank you Wrekin Road Runners for putting on a great race, see you at training on Tuesdays/Thursdays.
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