Corstorphine 5 Mile Race 5/6/06I was sitting in my garden enjoying the sun contemplating on whether I should run in the Silverknowes 5k or the much hillier Corstorphine 5 mile when I eventually decided at 6.40pm to get my kit and head over to Turnhouse Road for the 5 miler. After registering I met John Pickard and both he and I went for a relaxed warm up run. At the starting line I came upon John trying to tell Zac the layout of the course and he asked me if I could help. I duly told Zac to follow me and I would get him round in a good time (only kidding, I actually told him to follow the lead car). The race duly started and the field quickly spread out and I seemed to have got into a group of similar aged and paced runners as we raced round what was a hilly course to say the least. We all equipped ourselves well with Zac winning in 25.17 and John Pickard finishing 15th in 31.00 and myself in 19th position with a time of 32.35 and picking up 1st male over 50,closely followed by the next three runners who were all in my age group. Another successful outing was had by Portobello Running Club.
Report Jim Scott
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click here for results at caac website (and photos to be posted later)