18th May 2009 - Message from Derek Moffatt

Sunday May 17th saw the inaugural running of the Tickhill Running & Athletic Club 10 mile multi terrain race, known as the "off T R A C10", just south of Doncaster.  It consists of farm dirt tracks, the crossing of 2 separate stiles with attendant delays & queues, some smooth tarmaced by ways, lots of field edges, grass strips, several ploughed fields, a section of sticky bare soil that weighs down your shoes, finishing off with a lengthy run through a narrow gap in a shoulder high oil seed rape crop.  In other words, exactly what it says on the tin, multi terrain. 

Main points:

• It is very nearly flat, in open countryside, and with no hills as such.  
• A lot of  "follow the leader" type of narrow paths making overtaking hard or impossible at times.  
• Despite heavy recent rain, it was possible to sneak round the edge of all the huge puddles and keep your feet dry. 
• Mile boards nicely visible but not accurately placed.
• 1 drinks station at 5 miles and 1 at end.  
• Marshalling fine.
• No secure baggage store and very limited loos.
• About 150 entrants including what looked like most of the Maltby Club. Well worth a look at for 2010.
• I would certainly run it again.

 Derek Moffatt, your spy and only Scunny runner.

p.s. very cheap entry, only £6.

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