So Good...

...they made us run it twice!

Reston Golden Pearl Race. They had kept quiet about the route beforehand, turned out to be a two laps of what I suppose is the short AS Reston Scar Scamper race in July. I've never come across a two lap fell race before and in the Lake District of all places. Still, it was a glorious still clear sunny day and it still looked good second time round. Bit distressing to find that the second 3 mile lap was 8 minutes slower though, I'll use that to spur me on.

The ground was a variety of good runnable stuff, couple of decent walking climbs (150m and 100m), some grassy bits across the top, a short mental descent and some narrow slippery trod stuff - so a good mix of terrain. Race headquarters is in the Hawkshead brewery in Staveley, so it has to survive - if it does it will be a good early season loosener or training race for the bigger stuff later on.

Colin