Pirates Groot Gat Marathon
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| Date: |
27 February 2010 |
| Time: |
06h30 |
| Organisers: |
Kimberley Pirates Marathon Club |
| Distance: |
42.2; 21.1; 10; 5; |
| Province: |
Griqualand West |
| Start: |
Pirates Club
Jacobus Smith Street
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| Enquiries: |
Contact 1: Jan Naborn
(W) 053-8410163
(C) 082-4902788
(Email) jpnaborn@hotmail.com |
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| Entry Details: |
Entries are taken on the Friday before the race from 17h00 to 19h00. Late entries are taken on race day from 05h00.
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| Route Description: |
Route Type: Circular
The course starts with a run to the well known Open Mine Museum area and through the “old” streets of Kimberley. There is a long and testing climb to the site of OMV Crushers on the Cape Town Road to where the real “battle” begins.
The route takes on a charm of its own as it rolls through a game farm on a gravel road, the ostriches silently watch from a safe distance. But it is the quarry that brings the mind sharply into focus. Here the battle of the race is lost, or won. The decent to the bottom is steep, and you must watch your footing. It is the climb out that presents a stern and yet unique test. Bite down hard, and climb.
Once out of the quarry the main work is done. There is still the 16-kilometre journey back into town, now on tired ‘quarry legs’. Don’t get too complacent, for just when you think of the green grass of home there is a nasty two-kilometre hill to test the strength of your resolve.
Both the half marathon and 10-kilometre event are out-and-back affairs run on the same course.
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| Prizes and Give-Aways: |
| Category winners receive gold medals. All other finishers get bronze medals. There will be a lucky draw after prize giving. |
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| Editor's Notes: |
Walkers are welcome to enter the half marathon (Kleingat) and 10-kilometre (Kortgat) races only.
Finishers: 200 Time Limit: 05:00 |
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