SUNDAY 6 APRIL 2008

 

Distance: 5km run, 30km bike, 5km run

Race Centre: Diss High School, Walcot Road, Diss, IP22 4DH

Registration: Opens 7.00 a.m., closes 8.30 a.m. prompt.

If you are delayed please telephone 07808 822622 to advise the Race Organiser.

Race Licence must be produced on the race day, failure to do so will result in competitor having to purchase a day licence at a cost of £3.

• Race Briefing: 9.00 a.m.

• First Wave: 9.30 am

• Free parking, changing, showers

Prizes: 1st, 2nd, 3rd male and female

1st male and female in each age group

Results will be available on our website shortly after the event.

Run Course

The first run leg will start in three waves 5 minutes apart. The start will be at the school gates on Walcot Road. Follow the route along past the squash club, take the first left turn along to the Burston Road junction where you will take a left turn back towards Heywood Road, please keep to the left side of the road. Follow Heywood Road back towards town into Mount Street please keep to the left along Mount Street and at St Mary’s church turn left into Frenze Road. Please be watchful of pedestrians around the town area. Follow the road along into Frenze Hall Lane, turn left at the railway bridge, be careful of oncoming traffic. Follow the route along into Walcot Road back to the school where you will enter the Transition area.
The second run leg is a repeat of this first leg.

Bike Course

Turn right out of the school gates and follow the run route round Walcot Road to the Burston Road junction where you will turn right (foot down point), continue towards Burston, after a left hand bend the route takes you up Durbidge’s Hill, at the top turn left into Back Lane (this part of the course requires some attention to the road surface), follow road along and turn left at T junction remaining on Back Lane, then left again at next T junction onto The Heywood. Follow this road along to the Burston Road / Heywood Road junction where you will turn left to start the second lap. The second lap is a repeat of the first and you turn left here again to start your third lap. When you reach this junction for the third time you will turn right into Heywood Road (foot down point), continue along and turn left into Walcot Road, then right into the school and Transition area. The 2nd run leg is a repeat of the first.

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Page created: Dec 2006. Last updated: 29th February 2008.