Mid Week League - Welwyn
1/7/2009 - 5 miles
4th (my 3rd) Mid Week League race. This time in Welwyn. Other races had been 10Km but this one was a 5 mile race made up of two circuits of a housing estate.
The day was one of the hotest of the year and it had not cooled down was sweating standing on the start line so not looking forward to this.
Arrived at the Rugby Club and parked up, pulled on my shirt but on my shoes and made my way to the start.
Nice housing estate to run around, lots of trees and green area. The mile marks where out for both laps so a bit confusing as the first one I passed said 3 miles. Quick bit of mental arithmetic and I worked out we had only done 1/2 mile. Marshall's did a good job of blocking the traffic so we did not have to stop at the loads of junctions there was. Really odd course as we seemed to be going up a slight incline for the first 1.5 miles then it seem to flatten out then went up a sharper incline before back to the start finish. The second time around was a bit boring.
Lost my pace at the 4 mile mark so walked for a short while and then picked it back up again. Finish time of 42.18