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Graham Gristwood - Road debut

Road debut

Today I made my oad race debut. I have run a few road relays at various distances, and I ran a couple of fun races when I was a junior, but I have never run a serious road race at a proper distance until today. I took part in the…
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Telford 10km, which was run around Telford Town Park. 2 laps of the same course, it was all on surfaced paths with one small climb on each lap. At the far end of each lap, runners had to turn around a post and continue in the direction they had just come from - it wasn so nice to have to basically stop running and then get back up to maximum pace again, that was probably the hardest bit.I did the race partly out of curiosity and partly out of having a time that I can compare with over the next…

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