Export resultBrecon Beacons on Sat 27th Aug 1994
42 startersThe Brecon Beacons is what every fell race should be. You just write your number on the back of your hand and set off. The field is always small and friendly. One glorious year I even led the race for about five minutes. each year it is run in alternate directions. This year we went anticlockwise which meant a long, long climb to start with and then two stretches on forest tracks near the end when you are knackered but you have got to run hard. It is a fast course with only a few short sections where you are reduced to a walk, but it covers the main hills of the Brecon Beacons and when the weather is clear the views are great.
It is a full category A race but a good antidote to the races in the Lakes and North Wales. I had a good battle in the last five miles and was pleased to hold off John Durby and Adrian Belton. Two of the leaders who should have been placed better went dramatically wrong so we were all promoted by two places.
Rick Ansell
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