Road Race

Early on Saturday November 26th the Sportsworld teams set off for 7 days of activity in Lanzarote. The annual trip to Lanzarote for the four day International race challenge was finally here. There was no time to ease into our week at Club La Santa this year as races started the following morning. Most of the Sportsworld contingent arrived en masse on Saturday evening. Packie even flew in from Cork sporting a stylish November moustache. Your first night in a strange room is always difficult but when the alarm went off at 6.30 AM on Sunday morning there was no mistaking that it was time for our first few laps around the track. It’s become standard practice for the lad’s room to do 2 miles of the track first thing in the morning before each race.  It’s a custom that was handed down by Ed a few years back and has since stuck. A quick easy run works to loosen up the legs and get the body fired up. On the morning of the first race we went to collect our numbers. Arriving back to the room I learned that Paul Duffy has been given race number 1. As if Paul needed more encouragement, being number one added even more to his determination to get one over on the Danes. The large Sparta club from Copenhagen have finished top dog in the race s for the past few years. The 2009 champion is now one of Denmark’s top international runners. The first morning’s race is a 10K on a modest course. Two laps around Club La Santa starting and ending on the track. You run on asphalt roads toward the villages of La Santa and [...]