Twelve kilometer circles in Victory Park, about fifty participants, a half dozen referee counters, the lack of modern chip timing, which was replaced by a seasoned timekeeper with a stopwatch... Everything, as it once was, in a nostalgic homely atmosphere - this was how the next open stage of its own Grand Prix, organized by the local running club, was held.
Cozy asphalt ring near the beach playground in the city center with a far from even relief as if specially created for the training cross. Another feature is the quantitative and qualitative component of the veteran composition, the competition among the leaders of which was stronger than that of the youth.
Among the three Ostrovets residents, only Anastasia Novikova managed to cling to the pedestal. The participant of the recent half-marathon in Riga, Nina Karenkova, like the author of these lines, found herself in the immediate vicinity of the prize-winning three - but, as they say, a little bit is not considered. In the openwork only Nastya - and we congratulate her!
