Juniors – Aug/Sep Newsletter
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MK Tour – The Final Race
The final race of the Tour of MK saw the runners tackle the Willen Lake "6", a lollipop-shaped course starting on the River Ouzel at Woughton on the Green and taking in a lap of Willen Lake before returning the way it started. It is a flat course which would be fast were it not for the numerous gates and cattle grids, plus the fact it is actually closer to 6.5 miles! The long-ish nature of this final race means that there is still ample opportunity to move up the overall leader board, but only if you have something left in your legs after the first five days!
MK Tour – 1 to go
The fifth race of the tour saw Leighton members dominating the leading positions, with four in the first six. The Campbell Park "5" was that race this year and is always put in speech marks because it is actually around 4.4 miles! The great thing is that it has an extremely fast start down hill from the Belvedere to the canal where many of us ran quicker than we did in the track mile race! The problem is that you then have to regain all of that lost height in a long slow drag back up in the second mile, before repeating the lap again.
MK Tour – Update
Legend has it that there is a secret burning ceremony following the tour of MK where any spare T-shirts, not earned by competitors are cast into the flames to ensure that undeserving people cannot get their hands on these prized possessions! Whether or not this is true, a tour finishers T-shirt is certainly hard to come by as it costs much sweat, occasional blood and the odd tear! So, four days into this year's tour, the event is starting to take it's toll, but all ten LBAC members are hanging on in their battles with accidents, injury and the athletes of MK.
Watchless 4
The third running of the LBAC Watchless 4 took place on Wednesday instead of the usual training run. The turn-out was strong thanks to a healthy contingent of Leighton Fun Runners joining us for the evening. This time last year there were just a few people who got within a minute of their predicted time, but this time around 22 out of 29 manage the challenge.
It would seem though that pushing yourself to run quickly may be a better tactic that aiming to trot round at a comfortable pace as we once again had joint winners who did exactly that. Both Gary Stratford and Chris Dimmock were just one second outside their own predicted times and took the pot of cash to share between them.