Swinburn has high hopes
GB team member Nick Swinburn is confident of team success at this Sunday’s European Mountain Running Champs in Turkey, and having viewed the course he feels that he is ready to perform well on an individual level too…
Similar to Andi Jones’ thoughts, the North-East based young athlete feels that due to their experience the GB men should be confident against some strong opposition.
Nick explains:
The main competition will probably be from Turkey, Italy and France, but I think we have a strong mens team as well with everyone having run in World and European mountain champs in previous years; Steve Vernon (Euros 2005 9th; Worlds 2008 13th), Adam Osbourne (Euros 2009 34th, Worlds 2009 34th) and Andi Jones (Euros 2007 11th, Worlds 2003 4th).
I’m looking forward to the race as the last few weeks of training have gone quite well. I did the course as a junior 5 years ago and had a decent race, though we walked the last 4k of the course yesterday and its funny how you forget all the steep bits.
Theres a good 400m flat section to the finish for some overtaking of theres anything left in the legs after 1300m of climb.
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