Sunday 17 March 2019

Leicester Town and Gown 10K

Claire new PB of 63:23

Grantham Running Club’s Claire Fritz took part in the Leicester Town and Gown 10K on Sunday 17th March with 308 other runners.

The course starts at Leicester’s Victoria Park and took in three laps of the park and the University of Leicester.  It is a fast, flat course, with plenty of personal best opportunity.
Now in its third year, the Leicester based race is the newest of Muscular Dystrophy UK’s Town and Gown series. The race is chip timed, marshalled throughout and rewards finishers with a medal and goody bag.  There were good facilities within the Charles Wilson Sports Hall at the university where the Event Village was housed.
The weather on the day caused some concern with gale force winds hitting certain areas of the course. Despite the wind Claire gained a personal best of 1:03:23, shaving 27 seconds from her previous best effort set at the Sleaford 10k in August 2018. 

The winner was Mark Ryall of Milton Keynes AC in 00:34:10; Nora Battermann the winning woman in 00:40:55.

No comments:

Post a Comment