Race Report: Chester Spring 5 03/04/2013

This five-mile road race, first held in 1993, starts and finishes at the Cheshire County Sports Club playing fields. 

Mat at the Chester Spring 5 (Number 3)

The measured race route uses gently undulating country lanes, and is generally downhill for the first two miles, before a short climb at halfway eases to a gradual rise. Most of the last mile back to the finish on the playing fields is flat.

This is a nice 5 mile race which encourages a good range of club runners for a competitive 5 mile run on a Wednesday night at 7pm

I have ran this race 3 times now and have enjoyed each one, I started around mid-pack surrounded by club vests and an array of bleeping as 300 garmin watches went off...I stayed at a nice 6:30 min/mile pace holding back slightly as I wanted to stay strong all the way round where in the past I have seemed to fade a bit in the middle, anyway this seemed to work well as after the down hill start and about 3 miles in I felt quite fresh as I could see people starting to fade so I kept the pace steady for the last mile back to the sports club for a nice little time of 33:13 position 86 out of 295 which I was pleased with.

I was the first strider home...hurrah...oh and the last.. as I was on my own tonight...next year guys...

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Mat.