Quite daunting to have 300 folks charging towards you 60 seconds after the off.
Normally volunteer marshals do a lot of shouting-encouragement and clapping - but the folks in the house near my turn have complained that is disturbs their sleep-head teenage offspring (this is 9:15 on a Saturday after all) - so I limit my self to calling out positions for the top male and female runners (for which I was, later, thanked)
I did have the chance to observe, contrast and compare runners and running styles
With most of the students gone away for the summer the elite were thin on the ground - some really uncomfortable looking running actions - and lots of looking-over-shoulder at the turn.
Strange how tiny 10 year old moppets easily outrun most of the twenty- and thirty- something ladies - is it low muscle fitness/strength combined with excess weight - or possibly confidence? There were some father-son combinations running hand in hand and an amazing number of runners carrying water bottles - on a 30 minute outing - surely will make no difference - again this seems to be a generational thing - I see it at work - folks never without a drink in their hands or on the desk.
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| Colin Spears at Cannon Hill Parkrun |
There were a couple of Harlequins running - Colin Spears and Mike Abbott (who was also up for a session of British Military Fitness)
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