Plymouth Hoe is beautiful even on a wet winter's day, but in the bright sun that welcomed a huge field of 651 athletes to the Plymouth Hoe 10 road race, it was simply stunning. There was a downside of course, it was cold with a chilling North wind.
The race was the first in what is hoped to be a regular series between Devon and Cornwall athletes, this time with Cornwall running out as winners of the men's race, whilst Devon's women proved triumphant in the ladies race.
From Eastern side of the county and scoring for the Devon team, Mark Cowan from Exeter Harriers was 9th overall in 55:32.
Outside of the County team challenge, Exmouth Harriers were represented by Roger Rowe, running his penultimate race as a Vet/55 before moving up into the Vet/60 category. He narrowly beat new 55+ Plymouth Harriers athlete Mike Beatty in 1:02:44 to Beatty's 1:02:57. Roger overcame a fall in the third mile to finish strongly on the undulating course in 56th place in the field.
Les Turner, also from the Harriers completed in a solid 1:27:48 in 422nd place.
(Roger R)
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