Comments on 10k 2009
I thoroughly enjoyed Sunday’s 10k race – thanks for organising it. I do have a couple of suggestions for future 10k races, having also ran your first year 10k:
- It would help if the start had suggested time zones, so the quicker runners could start at the front and slower runners at the back.
- The first years run finished with a long step descent through the woods, immediately before the final 2 fields. This was brilliant, and gave the race a special character. Please reconsider reinstating this final downhill.
- This year’s race went up the steep path (see point 2) early on in the race. This caused a long bottleneck because the path was narrow and the field was still quite bunched.
- One suggestion to cater for points 2 and 3 would be to: keep this year's start upto the entry to the woods. Then cross in front of the woods and, essentially, reverse the direction of this years race, eventually finishing with the long downhill path through the woods, and back across the fields. This would be almost exactly the same distance as his year.
Please, please keep the long, steep downhill finish.
PS. It’s still a wonderful race and I hope to be back next year, whatever the course. Thanks for listening.
Jack Taylor Email: jacktayl@hotmail.com
