KB5 5/03/10
You may need to be patient as this file is 33mbA good hilly 5 miles: up towards the Braids then back round and down to the Kings Buildings. A tough race on rough pavements but its only 5 miles and brings out a strong field of mainly younger (student) runners. James Harrison was first Porty in - there weren't many of us there today with a lot signed up for Lasswade tomorrow which is twice as long and possibly twice as hilly. Willie J was just spectating today as he is running tomorrow so I gave him my camera set to rapid fire mode telling him he couldn't take too many photos. He did try to do just that returning it to us with over 1600 photos on the card so I ran them together into a slideshow - sort of re-inventing films. Considering the lack of preparation Willie had I think he did a pretty good job of capturing the majority of the field, firstly about 30 seconds into the race, then about half a mile from the finish just after we hit the dip between the last descent and the final climb back to Kings Buildings. I was pleased to go under 30 minutes and be only 11 seconds slower than last year when I was doing a lot more speed work at the meadows Tuesday night sessions just prior to this event. Obviously Willie's Wednesday night session worked wonders.
Good luck to all Porties at Lasswade.
James, leading the pack in the GBR all-in-one.
All these runners beat me! I've got the hang of the first hundred metres I just need to master the next 4.9miles.
Ivor was back to something like his previous form.
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Photos Willie J
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