Holkham wrote:
The Sunderland course was used for the North Eastern and by all accounts it is tough, muddy, hilly with lots of camber, and worryingly it is very narrow in a lot of places, lots of people saying 'how the hell they going to run the national on that!'.
If it's the same course that used last time it was in sunderland then it's pants. Very narrow indeed and lots of cambers. It was frozen last which made it even more difficult.
not the same course, new purpose built
Wicked, sounds like theres going to be elbows flying all over the place. I'll put my 15mm spikes in just incase it turns nasty.
You just have to mention the word rain near Herrington (Sunderland) and it turns to mud!!
The park is not yet mature so the grass wont be recovered from the North Easterns where is got very muddy by the time the women went off at the end of the day, so i would expect A LOT of mud for the men!!
It is very narrow in places, especially the run into the finish field, but apparently this is being looked at. There are also lots of paths to be crossed with one section, about 200m long, being ran on a bridal path! That'll be good fun with 15mm spikes in. There are two major hills, one of which you run half way up, come part back down then run back up again!! The rest are just inclines really. And yes there are quite a few cambers - not a one for those with weak ankles!!
Bryn be quiet you are too sophistocated to post on this board, you Oxford nerd! What is your 5k time now buddy bop?
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stafford BORING?!? football fields?!? are you joking?!
it is the worst course i have ever run on. like running through a bog, even on the start straight you're sinking in up to your ankles. theres a mud ditch that may once have been a river but now contains some u13s and small u15s who were sucked in along with hundreds of spikes! it's so bad they won't even hold one of the local leagues on it. URGH!
who do you mean