Three Harriers (Andy Buchanan, John McBride & Julie Beveridge) headed to Paisley on Sunday to take part in the town's 10k. Given that Paisley is not a million miles away from Motherwell you can guess from Stephen's race report that we all experienced similar hot weather conditions for running.
This race both starts and finishes in Country Square, in the centre of Paisley, with closed roads around Paisley town centre. The first kilometre of the race involves a loop around the town centre before heading out towards St Mirren's football ground. This part of the race is run on pavements and this continues up to the half way point where the race turns, just before the Phoenix Retail Park, to head back towards the town centre (although a different route back). Kilometres 6-9 are run along the cycle path. Apart from the slight climb at mile 9 as you head up towards the High Street, I would say this race is relatively flat and the downhill finish on the High Street (before taking a sharp left) makes for a fast finish.
This race was chip timed and full results can be found on the sports systems website.
All finishers received a medal and water bottle (and you could have a free swim in the Lagoon leisure centre upon presenting your medal or 3k fun run number - there is also a 3k fun which takes place on the same day but after the 10k).
I struggled yesterday around about the 3km mark and lost a bit of time. However once I felt better again I ran the rest of the race comfortably and I had a good strong finish on me as I sprinted down Paisley High Street. My final time was 41.46.
Thanks to Julie for the report. Andy was 36:22 and John 47:17. Well done to all.
Alan
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