The Skeleton Run - Nordic Walking

Here is a race report from Catherine Hughes of British Nordic Walking Ltd about a fantastic event called the Skeleton Run.  Enjoy.

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What a fun Friday night out! I hope you enjoyed Nordic Walking up and down Beacon Hill - the Skeleton race always delivers a challenging workout with a most entertaining atmosphere provided by participants and marshals in their fancy dress outfits.

Congratulations to Matt for being the first Nordic Walker to complete the Beacon Hill route in under and hour - he smashed the previous best time of 1hr16secs finishing in 57:43. He's also raised lots of money for Rutland School for parents too - well done! Provisional results are now here

Alison successful poled her way to a PB looking stylish in her Devil outfit - photos from the event are on facebook - (including a shot of the impressive ghostbusters team). In the dark, Martin was more than 3 minutes faster than his time in the summer race - steaming into the finish at high speed then dashing off to dinner. Good to see Barry posting on twitter that he will be back next year to improve on this year's PB.

I certainly enjoyed the evening. It was good to bump into Steve again and talk about Nordic Walking parkrun. I'm also very pleased that after about four previous attempts I managed to break the one hour barrier too - I think my heart rate trace (below) shows Nordic Walking can be a strenuous workout - as we all know!

I look forward to seeing you at the next race - what will that be? parkrun? or do you know of any others??

Best wishes

Catherine

Director
British Nordic Walking Ltd
www.britishnordicwalking.org.uk