Machine-translated from Faroese and not yet reviewed. Read the original.
Rebekka Fuglø and Andrias Hansen won the overall Winter Series. We will write an article about that a little later, once all the points have been counted and are ready to publish.
However, neither of them managed to win the final round, which was the Faroese 10 km road running Championships. Roysnið offered 10 laps of flat running in Runavík on Saturday, and around 70 runners gathered outside Kiosk Vár, where the starting gun went off at 15:03.
The best Faroese distance runner is in good form, now that fewer than 100 days remain until the Island Games
Although Rebekka set a solid personal best, running under 39 minutes for the first time, it was still a long way to first place. For the day’s race, no less a runner than Marna Egholm had come to the Faroe Islands to show off her skill, which is running very fast for a very long time. She did just that on Saturday too, and was clearly the leading woman. It turned out to be a quality time, and with 36:31 min she moves into third place on the Danish rankings for 2017. Duruta R. á Lofti took the bronze.
In the men’s race it was Jan Elmar Sørensen who shot off, wanting a high pace from the start. It was not long before he had shaken off his closest rival. Andrias did all he could to push Jan Elmar, but the latter was in good form on the day. Although he complained of a stitch from as early as three kilometres, this did not show in his performance. Largely even kilometre splits the whole way secured him the win, the Faroese title and a new personal best of 33:38 min.
Jan Elmar, too, is where he needs to be, now that the Island Games are not far away
Julian Gregersen and Eirikur Hansen also fought to reach the front, but had to settle for a hard battle for third and fourth place, which Julian won.
All the results can be seen here
The photos taken by Jóannes Poulsen can be seen here
(written by: Hallur)
…to be continued….
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