Beith Harriers new year 10k

One for the diaries for next year guys. Today was the Beith Harriers new year 10k.

Ive done this race before but it used to be 4.7 miles of laps in the industrial estate.

This year it was changed to a 10k on a brand new route. A tad cold this morning so I took a longer warm up than usual about 30 mins before the start running a mile on the course. Starting on the old course in the Industrial estate you run for 80 metres on the road before turning onto the cycle path. This gives the field a little chance to break up as the cycle path is a bit narrow for the start. After the first 1.5k you turn off the path and onto the streets and into the country roads. At this point you start to climb all the way to just after 5k with one little drop just after 4k. Through the 5k you crest the highest point on the course and have a long downhill taking you to just before 7k and back onto the cycle path and the run home to the finish, finishing on the cycle path just before where we joined it at the start. A very well organised event and very reasonably priced at £5, a good challenging route and one to set you up for the year ahead. Having had some difficulties with a hamstring injury the last couple of weeks I was a lot happier after todays run of 54.09 as its done no more harm to the injury and definitely getting better. Would be great to see some Harriers join me next year at this event.