Well at least it didn't snow on the Saturday.
The Peel hill race has got everything, fast start on the road for about 400-500 metres and then a steady climb. The men compete over a four mile course and the women over a three mile route. The races are held separately. With the exception of the first and last half mile the course is on grass. There are two main climbs on the route for the men and one for the women with a number of short sharp climbs as well. The descent is less steep. Therefore, the climb suits the fell/hill runners but they have less of an edge over the road and track runners on the downhill.
I had decided to really push myself on this one as I like the hills and was pleased to finish 5th vet in 26:55 which was about 90 seconds quicker than last year - it also moved me up to 9th position overall.
Lots of the University teams then run back to Douglas from Peel (about 11 miles) on a pub crawl !
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