III VUELTA ATLETICA A ARUCAS

Today I ran the 3rd leg in a 5 leg road relay with my athletics club CAI. We got off to a good start with Efren winning his leg by about 20sec. Things didn't go so smoothly on the 2nd leg when Miguel's shoe fell off at the start of his run, leaving him about 1minutes down on the fastest times. I ran a solid leg finish 2nd behind ex-CAI member Saul. My leg started with approximately 4km down-hill (very steep in parts), the middle 1km was up and down and then finished with 3km of climb back into the town of Arucas. My time was 33.14 for 9600m. Sergio ran a good 4th leg finish 3rd in a very competitive field. Our final leg runner Rodrigo had host club Carucat's up-hill specialist Veray to contend with, and had little chance when Veray broke the course record (my course record). As always this was a very well organised race with some impressive money prizes (3500Euros in total), and it is a race I hope will be apart of Active Canaria's 2010 program.