10 things I learnt on Tour
June 7, 2008
Here are ten things I learnt during this week’s Tour of Bournville:
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Tour of Bournville Race 4
June 5, 2008
After today’s race a couple of the guys were talking about how the endorphin rush from this week’s constant running was giving them such a buzz they were finding it hard to sleep. I can barely find the energy to lift my fingers above the keyboard to type these words. Worse still it’s bin night round here and guess whose job that is in my house?
Tour of Bournville Race 3
June 4, 2008
I won. What more is there to write? I’ve never won a race in my life. Not ever. Not as a youth, not as an adult. So if you’ve arrived at this page expecting a full report on the runners and riders of race three of the Tour of Bournville then you may be disappointed. Instead there’ll be plenty of self-congratulation and discussion of my astonishing performance. I bet you can’t wait.
Tour of Bournville Race 2
June 3, 2008
Now here was a fascinating battle at the front of what was a punishing race with two strong characters battling each other on a succession of tough hills. What a shame I wasn’t one of those characters!
Those were big hills. I mean come on, I know there are plenty of tough fell running types in our running club but to me that’s as many hills as I want to cover in one race. I believe one of them is even known as ‘The Killer Mile’. Basically this is two loops of a course set in a strip of lovely North Worcestershire countryside sandwiched between the last suburb in Birmingham and the M42.
Tour of Bournville Race 1
June 2, 2008
My number is already looking a little out of focus after race one of the 2008 Tour of Bournville. In fact I discovered its difficult-to-get-off green and black ink all over my hands and arms when I had a post-race shower. Seeing as we’re using the same number for all five races I’m going on the basis that it’ll be unreadable by Friday so this can act as a record of what number I am.
I’ll do a brief race report here although I apologise to non-Bournville Harriers types for whom the names I mention below will mean little. To the rest of us of course they represent the giants of the South Birmingham amateur running world – or something like that.
5 days, 5 races
May 29, 2008
Next week I go back into full on running mode after a few weeks of post-marathon laziness. Yes it’s the 2008 Tour of Bournville, organised by the club I run for, Bournville Harriers. The simple idea is to run a race every day from Monday to Friday with all the race times added together to find the winner…