Two Harriers made their way to Killin for the annual 10k. This is one Richard normally does but he decided to give it a miss this year leaving Ruth Kelly and Russell Couper as the clubs representatives. Ruth had travelled with two friends that she was going to help round the course. Conditions were good before the start being overcast but dry. Just after noon we were off and running up Killin main st and the sun came out making it feel very warm. We were soon over the river and a loop back down the old rail line towards the start area and off onto the country roads that have some nasty undulations and one big uphill to the turning point just after 6k then its a mostly downhill run back to town on a different road but I had forgotten that the downhill has a lot of ups on it too and by this point my legs were very heavy so it was a bit of a slog to the finish but happy to take 2 mins from last years time (56.41). Ruth had started with her friends Alison Smyth and Catherine Garioch but going up the main st she instructed Alison to push on and run her own race finishing with a new pb (60.42) which would be a sub hour on most other courses. Ruth ran with Catherine to encourage her round a tough course finishing in 79.13 and 79.14 respectively. The girls were all running in our Trail t shirts. A very scenic race and an offer of a free beer at the end.
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