The Northville Road Runners sponsor the “Solstice Race” which has both a 5K and a 10K road race. The feature this year is the start of the race in a lap of Northville Downs a sulky racing horse track.
I entered the 10K (6 miles) race just because it sounded like a good idea at the time.
The course starts with a lap around the horse track, and that is just about the only flat place on the course! It goes through a couple residential neighborhoods, and then through downtown Northville and into Ford Field a local park. Using the data created by my Garmin FR305, downloaded into Sports Tracks, then saved as a jpg file, shows the course winding around from the track, through the neighborhoods and then back through town.
An elevation map, not the biggest hills ever, but enough to let you know they are there.
The final results.
- Some stats for the race:
a) 10 Kilometers
b) finished 386 out of 577 overall
c) finished 14 out of 20 in my age group.
d) had a 9:20 pace, 57:57 total. (Not a pr for this distance… but the hills, the hills…)
e) You can see the full details on the running stats web page.
f) had a great time – which is always the goal right?… Right!
Some photos of the race and Northville Michigan.
Until the final nag in in the stable at the end of the race,
George