Saturday 7 July 2018

Isle of Harris Half Marathon


It was on to the Isle of Harris for Grantham Running Club’s Nev Chamberlain to round off his participation in this years Heb3 series of Outer Hebridean half marathons at the series finale. This race is a linear event with runners being bussed to the start at Borve on the west coast of South Harris and then running back to the finish in the town of Tarbert.

Knowing what was to come later along the course Nev set off at a steady pace using the first five miles of undulating road along the coast to prepare for a tough mid section of the race. Shortly after passing Luskentyre beach which is regularly voted one of the top ten beaches in the world the road ramps up from sea level at the 5 mile mark until reaching the high point of 460ft just before the 9 mile mark, a headwind on this stretch added to the mix but he managed a consistent pace and although losing a few positions initially he'd gained a few by the time the road finally started to go back downhill.

From here to Tarbert the gradients stay mainly in the runners favour and Nev managed to gain a couple more places finally crossing the finishing line in 1:53:33. This race was the conclusion of the 5 race Heb3 series with the best 3 results making up the runners aggregate time Nev's time of 5:36:53 placed him 23rd overall out of 89 competitors.

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