Set in the beautiful countryside of the Larmer Tree Gardens and the Rushmore estate on the Dorset & Wiltshire border, an unusually tiny team in comparison to previous years of 2 Road Runners set off for the Larmer Tree Half Marathon race on Saturday 5th March.
The undulation on all the races at Larmer is relentless with an absolute whopper of a climb reaching a nose bleed inducing 841 feet right in the middle. Ventnor’s St.Boniface Down is 702ft as a little comparison for you. 😲
After her recent return to running following the arrival of baby Hugo early last year, our running ray of sunshine Lou Howell decided to take on the half marathon with brother and current London Marathon training partner Nick, and of course no half marathon within easy reach could possibly be resisted by our amazing Lyn Snow.
Lou looked like she had an amazing time and fully enjoyed being back out on the Larmer course. She crossed the line in a brilliant 2:32:01 taking 15th position in her age category. Well done Lou!
Lyn, completed the days proceedings for team IOWRR. Despite suffering from a niggly knee she wasn’t going to let that stop her and was determined to finish the race after having to pull out the last time she entered. And with the support of friends on the course that’s exactly what she did, bringing it home in 3:38:40.
“Lamer half done” said Lyn “got round in a time of about 3 hours 44 minutes. Thank you to Lisa Taylor and Cherry for sticking with me, hard going as my knee was playing up a bit, but that wasn’t going to stop me, last time I ran this I had to pull out,so that wasn’t going to happen again.” Awesome work Lyn as always.
Very well done to you both. ⭐️
Lou Howell 2:32:01
Lyn Snow 3:38:40
