Wow, can’t believe that it is a year since my first ‘official’
Hout Bay Harriers race. I was really
quite keen to compare my time this year to that of last years’. It was again quite windy, but nothing compared
to last year.
Had quite a fast start, and managed to keep up with Thérèse for a
bit, but lost my rhythm when my cap blew off. Must admit that I was super happy
to have run further before my first stop. The hill is relentless, and just as you
think it is going to go downhill after the next corner, it rises further up!
Fortunately what goes up, must come down - at some point. I walked quite a bit up the hill,
but tried to increase my pace with each running section. I also tried to make
up a bit of time on the downhill, and pushed myself the last km.
My time was 01:04:50, very happy with it; not the 1 hour
mark, but it was 06 minutes faster than last year! Sadly not going to change my
seeding for TwoOeans ½ but I am happy with how it went today.
The communication leading up to and on the morning of the race was really good in terms of e-mails and texts received.
I really like that the “medal” is a tree – this year
we received a “Water Berry Tree”. All the racers also received a really nice
black cap in their goody bag.
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