Penrith Rotary Club promotes an annual 10k race and as it’s in a cause I like to support, it was a must do. Perusal of the website suggested that it did not look to be too taxing, and the website photos of the route were rather attractive.
Also, I liked the idea of running past Lowther castle, a place I keep not quite getting around to visiting.
Andy and I turned up with half of our support team (the other half was at work in spite of it being a Sunday) to find rain and mud.
Thirty yards from the start the trail began in three inches of very slippery mud.
Not too taxing?? I think this was the hardest route I have raced so far! Allegedly a 10k course, it was actually 10.5, but what puzzled me was how it seemed to be ALL uphill. I sort of recall a down section at about the 8 or 9 k point, but sadly this was followed by another “up” before we returned through the mud to finish back at the starting point, as usual exclaiming “Never again!”
Oh, and the Lowther Castle view was a “blink and you’ll miss it” one.
After a bit of rivalry, passing one another several times, Andy and I slithered across the line together, taking respectable positions in the field of 210.
For the first time I got a medal that actually has my result engraved on it! 🙂
Hey great job. 🙂
Hi bunyip – Next time I come to Australia maybe I will find a warm, dry race to do???
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Yeah. Well done. I see your shoes looked trashed!…. unlike you. 🙂
I will try to give you more opportunities to use the clap emoticon!
Those muddy races are always the worst. Lots of effort and you feel like you’re getting nowhere. I remember one a couple of years ago where everyone ended up trying to run with an inch of sticky mud on the bottom of each foot! Well done!
It must be horrible running in/on mud – so much more effort – it must have felt like an awful lot further, not even counting the hills & extra .5K. Where will you display the medal?
Must have been fun “plodging through the clarts”! (Why do I have the feeling that very soon I’m gonna start speaking a version of English that even some English won’t be able to understand? ) Did you get sore muscles afterwards ❓