Everyone did really well to finish - well done to Juliet for being second lady overall. Here are some comments/stories from a few of us that ran:

The Knowlesys write:

Only the bravest Carnies arrived at the Piazza to conquer the new Truro Half Marathon course for 2007! 
Mike Knowles & Viv Bray (Cornwall AC) decided to reccy the course in training last week following Kev May & Helen Thomas' attempt to follow the course map. The verdict 'not too bad' But only to receive a phone call from Viv on Friday evening which put paid to his earlier comment as their map reading skills left a lot to be desired...they'd missed out the two monster hills!
 
The talk at race registration was centred around hills, hills, hills. The experience was soon to be upon us. Pre-race nerves had certainly kicked in early. The queues for the loos were lengthy with over hour to go before the gun!  Finally we were off. No excuses today for being too hot, too sunny etc, the race conditions were near perfect.
 
Having taken in the applause from the spectators around the mile and a half loop of the City centre we headed off to Shortlanesend - two hillsconquered! Little did we realise the extent of the numerous hills that followed. (Trust me, Chris Harper's training runs are flat compared to this course!) No sooner had you
cracked one, another one appeared. This was pretty much the norm until 12 miles when the viaduct came into sight and we were blessed with a flat mile into the finish at the Piazza.
 
A big thank you to Truro Running Club and especially Keith Wotton-Race Organiser for the privilege of paying for such torture..........only joking. A well organised race, lots f encouragement from the numerous marshalls - thankyou, a great goody bag & post race hospitality. 
One for the diary next year...........possibly!

Having been told by Mike that Indian Queens was flat, I should have known what I had in store today when he said at the start that there were some hills!!  Once again, he was being conservative with the truth! 
 
Karen Harrison

As any man will tell you we hate it when you women are right well my wife kath has been nagging me for a while saying that i don't eat enough before a long race.....so i decided to put her theory to the test. my saturday pre race nosh consisted of large fry up at 1000 am followed by a pasty at the rugby club around 3 ish and the full works from the local chinese at around 8pm. i hate to admit it but she was dead right , i arrived at the city of truro around 9.30 ish to enter (having not pre-entered) to be met by a lovely man at the registration who told me that they had run out of teashirts, I was not happy!

I started the race at a slow pace not knowing what to expect, but soon found the healthy eating kicking in as i slowly picked off one by one the runners ahead of me. i dug in as the lovely hills came and went, luckily the sun stayed behind the clouds and i completed the race in a very respectable time off 1.37.29  about 5 minutes faster than i thought i would do...god i love my wife!!! so my secret to a good race is listen to your partner and have an argument before you start.....regards    Les Smitham

 Helen Thomas comments: 

I knew what I was in for having run course a few weeks back (although got lost a bit then so hadn't experienced the mega hill out of Idless to Shortlanesend.) that day was enough to put Kev off completely and he went off to Devon!
Says it all I think.
 
I think my worst moment was getting to 12 miles and balancing the elation of knowing it was flat from there on in (although didn't realise they would run us through town and avoiding pedestrians would be part of the challenge) with the knowledge that I had finished in quicker than that time last year.
 
Not sure that this one will be a fixture on my race list as it has been for last few years, but then again maybe will have banished memories of the hills by then!

J

Carol Culley (pictured above) writes:

What a race! Indian Queens and Launceston are pussy cats in comparison to this roaring Tiger.  I think all that altitude asending and decending must have hadled my brain! and my Garmin.

Even I could not get lost on such a well marshalled course and plenty of runners ahead but what happened to miles eleven, twelve and thirteen? Coming under the viaduct I was thinking we must be running around the city for a mile or two or three I was very surprised to hear a marshall utter some encouraging words that included it's only 800 metres.

Maybe, just maybe I shoud repeat this torture next year to seek those missing miles, and just to reasure you all I did take rather a long route from the car park to race headquarters.  

More photos in our gallery - kindly taken by Sandy Jamieson and Pat Beresford