By Rob | June 27, 2016
Mitch has sent the following account:
So, the Prestwold 10K, organised by Barrow Runners – some race this was! As you can see from the picture – a free bottle of beer to all runners, a plentiful goody bag and, unusually, a can of de-icer in ‘Sphinx’ colours. And, well, the raffle prizes…. they were just something else! So, after a very, quick discussion, Andy Mc and I took the extremely brave decision to change our footwear and actually run in the brand new trainers that we had acquired no more than 5 minutes previously! We both stood nervously on the start line, sporting our untried running shoes (remarkably in our own club colours), before setting off round the Prestwold race track/airfield, where we did a flat, fast 4k. Then we branched left onto a gravel track for a kilometre, before turning out into the Leicestershire countryside to encounter a series of gently undulating country lanes. With a quick downhill from 8K to 9K, we finished back at the entrance to the airfield once more. Perfect weather conditions and the new ‘Sphinx’ running shoes enabled Andy to knock almost a minute off his 10K PB, whereas I trailed in some 5 minutes behind L Disappointingly no medal or T-shirt (I gest), but free beer (and brand new trainers) at just £10 per entry more than made up for that J
Results:
http://www.barrowrunners.co.uk/prestwold/
| Pos | Gun Time | Name | Chip Time |
| 72 | 43:00:00 | Andrew McIntosh | 42:42:00 |
| 122 | 47:10:00 | Mitch Timms | 46:50:00 |