
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
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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.
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Bike Course
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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.