What a fantastic morning it was this morning. The Park 2 Park half Marathon in Ipswich got under way just after 6:30AM with the temperature at a cool 3 degrees. There was good field for this, only the second of these events. We ran an initial 1.1K and then set out on 4 laps of a very hilly course. The weather provided ideal running conditions. There were water tables every K manned by very enthusastic volunteers..mostly school children as there is a competition for the best water stop.
I tried to maintain a relaxed attitude during the race but that didn't make the hills any easier. Intraining did a splendid job in organising the event. The 10K an 5K races were very well supported.
I finished in about the same time as last year, 1:38.
I will attempt to support this event every year. The event is promoted by the Ipswich Hospital Foundation which has a vision of making Ipswich the healthiest city in Austrlia.
4 comments:
An interesting post, Eddie. I was impressed with the organisers coming up with the idea of the best water stop. That's something that could certainly be replicated elsewhere. I was also imprressed with the vision of making Ipswich one of Australia's healthiest cities. And good on you too for supporting it and making a commitment to do so next year.
Congrats on a good run Eddie. Would've like to be out there with you but after GH was pretty knackered.
Its fantastic that the numbers were more than double last year, obviously a lot of the community were out there supporting it. The way its going there will be wave starts like C2S before too long :-)
I am terrified of this run after seeing you all do it the first year. However I am keen to support it somehow though this year it didn't work out that way with GH being on the day before and me sleeping in blissfully unaware there was a run on somewhere......
Sounds like it was a good run for you and it is always good to compare to the same run the year before to see where you are at with your running.
Is Noosa in your plans?
3 degrees is not cool .... you supporting this event is cool though
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