Trail race in Zuid-Kennemerland National Park - KAV Holland duintrail 2022
Disclaimer: Automatically translated from Russian
I’ll talk about another trailer organized by the KAV Holland athletics club and traditionally held in Zuid-Kennemerland National Park.
The event is not very large-scale, usually collecting 2-3 dozen participants. Without official timing, which essentially makes it a fan race in a circle of friends and friends.
This year the trailer was held on September 4th. At the same time, and around the same place, the final day of the Grand Prix of Formula 1 was held on the track in Zandvoort.
With registration, I pulled to the last: I was not sure that I would have time to move away from almost marathon, which I ran on Tuesday. But on Friday he had a light run, on Saturday he participated with his son in his first parkrun and decided that I could very well escape the trail twenty. Moreover, for all members of KAV Holland, participation is free, and colleagues at the — club need to be supported. I register.
The weather on the street was at that time sunny and hot. We take water, gels and a hat:
I jump into the car and go to the gathering place. Before the start, a small briefing takes place, at which the organizers explain the route. There are three distances to choose from — 6, 10 and 20 km. Long distance — only for hours with GPX. I don’t have a watch with a map now, but we agreed in advance to run a small group, including JP — the person responsible for inventing, preparing and marking routes. Yes, he arrives early, runs ten to fifteen kilometers to hang ribbons, and then runs another twenty with everyone. A common thing for an ultra-marathon runner and a trailer runner.
The people are not very much:
During the briefing, a park ranger drove up on a large SUV and checked the permission to conduct the race. The papers are in order, the blessing is received, they have fled.
Started with the whole crowd:
But after a kilometer they decided to run ahead with a smaller group:
The first part passed through the forest. Descendants, ups, stairs, roots. We look carefully under the legs:
Further, with a group that has reduced to four people, we run out to open places. The coating is diverse — narrow gravel tracks:
Wider paths:
Herbal sites overgrown with low shrubs around the edges. In some places sand. Climbing again and again descending:
Small coniferous forest plot:
Long climb to the observation deck:
They paused a short pause here:
Around is beauty. Bird Lake ( Vogelmeer ), in which the bulls are cooled:
On the other hand — North Sea. The sounds of Formula 1 cars are heard, helicopters fly:
It gets very hot. It’s time to move on. Ahead is another half of the distance.
Gravel again. We run suffering:
Grass:
Sand. A very diverse coating, for every taste. Only the rocks are missing:
Finally, a water station. The truth is a little out of place where — the man was expected to hide in the shade. We arrived first:
A small respite and an even more reduced composition we take the final breakthrough to the finish line. We stood at the finish line a bit, drank tea / coffee and I went home.
As a result, the walk was 20.25 km and took 1 hour 50 minutes.
Great run. An interesting varied route. As in last time discovered several new sites.
In order to show where all this goes through the — map. The route is marked in red. Blue circle — Formula 1 track in Zandvoort. Green Circle — is our home stadium in Harlem. And Schooterog is marked in a gray circle, around which I ran my festive marathon. Left — North Sea.
Photos taken not by me were taken by JP, for which he thanks a lot.
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