A few of us harriers made it along to the Hunters Bog Trot race this year on a lovely sunny day, possibly our one day of summer :-). This is a short and fun race hosted by the Hunters Bog Trotters. It always involves a hilarious pre – race briefing and some crazy spot prizes at the end, such as a brown jigsaw puzzle, some brown fabric dye…..
The race was as painful as always; the climb up the Radical Road is tough and none of us had been training in warm temperatures until now, so it felt a bit toasty. It’s a great speedy race to do, with a bit of hill thrown in, and much handier than most of the hill races. We had some ice cream at the finish too.
Des Crowe: 29th 33:58
Michael Greens: 39th 35:35
Rob Wilson: 43rd 36:28
Gill Cairns: 50th (1st F40) 37:09
Sadie Kemp: 84th 43:55
Chris Downie: 100th 47:08
Well done all, and another great result for Gillian!
That’ll be HBT flakes in the ice cream then, was it beer flavoured?
More beer for Gillian! You are amazing.
Aw, thanks Sadie – right back at ya, superstar ultra runner!
Good to see our runners smiling, perhaps because they’re all eating ice cream. Gillian was smiling and she was 1st F40 – well done Gillian. It looked a lovely sunny day, perhaps the last day of summer!
Thanks Bill! I really hope more summer to come :-).