Obviously Peter is back in shape after his severe illness. First participation of Upali since he has been working in his home country Sri Lanka to help his people after the tsunami catastrophe, and first participation of Carla - welcome ! Thank you to our timers Joyce and Alain who worked together very well. Alain's pictures will be on our homepage soon.
There was not enough snow to justify running the wintercourse and the temperature was not too bad at -4 C.
A close finish by the leading group of three and another duel starring Alain and Graeme.
Comeback of the race: Annie TAIT finished 10k again after a break of exactly 5 years (in 1999 she had been second in our VICRunners Cup).
Thanks to our timers Anabel & Christian who will have cold feet for the rest of the day.
Eleven participants were in PR mood today, first sub-40 for Harald, first sub-50s for Mario, Mohammad and Pascal, first sub-60 for Nada ! First VICRunners appearances for Ruth jumping to rank no. 7 in the top 100, and for Ira. Comebacks of the day: Jane's and Tamas' first VICRunners event after more than 2 years.
The number of participants today had almost dimensions of an Annual Run - thank you all for your attendance !
Congratulations to those few who ran a PR despite the high temperature - Beate missed rank 4 in the top 100 by 2 seconds, Malik improved by 5 minutes (!), Frank & Daniela.
Special congratulations to the VIC Football team who all three finished their 10k !
After today's rain race, two guests are found on top of the ranking list - Peter dominated the race and Christian won the sprint of the followers' group. Successful 10k debuts for Harald and Malik, a successful comeback for Tom and - unusual under these unfriendly circumstances - four PRs.
The weather was not so unfriendly as it may have looked - anyway, only ten runners were out today, congratulations to all who made it.
At our Semi-Annual Run event there were more guests at the dinner than runners in this 10k (Thursday was an Austrian holiday, many runners probably extended their weekend).