Our super speedster Ross Wilkes was back out on the startlines this weekend, but he wasn’t alone. He, along with 3 friends, was part of a mixed team to partake in the Hart 4 relay.
4 hours to complete as many laps of a 4km course in teams of 4… get the theme here?
Based on MoD land at Minley Manor near Fleet, this family orientated fun day has a festival feel with face painting, balloon modelling and music.
10.30 came and Ross took the teams baton first around the undulating loop through woodland, gravel paths and grassland.
“The course was a lot harder than we thought. I think we all underestimated it” Ross says
But that didn’t stop rocket Ross from giving it his usual 100%. He managed to clock the second fastest lap of the whole competition in a cracking 14.22
“I can normally find a pace and stick to it in races but it was like doing a challenging parkrun. It was really high intensity, fast pace on a really difficult course”
The rain did nothing to aid Ross and his team as they completed loop after loop of the course. Instead of having a cooling effect, it created high humidity in the large areas of woodland.
Ross’s team ran well completing 14 laps between them, 5 of them attributed to Ross. This gave the team 13th place in the mixed category.
