Compass Sport heat, Cannop ponds, short brown, running "up", against the M45s etc, 7.8km / 200m
2nd to Clive, again, close behind, again; very pleased that RH Achilles / ankle was relatively pain free today - had an extra heel wedge in which, I'm hoping, will give me an answer for now.
Course was not the norm - starting with long legs, some 6 minutes, then suddenly changing to a gaffling type finish, with a common control visited 3 times in about 10 minutes - I really enjoyed this! then a tough climb out similar to BOC relay 2015, up to the finish. Nice one Geoff Ellis!
LH calf started knotting & hurting on way to no 2, which worried me a lot, and put me off, then lost a minute to Clive on long leg no 3, (just hesitant/ no plan; rubbish at long legs ; folded map badly) then caught Jeremy Tonge 3 -4 , and ridiculously lost 45 seconds at no 4 due to sloppy compass work & feeling "conspicuous". Idiot! then lost another 30secs at 5 cos I wasn't accurate enough & nor were the mapped vegetation boundaries.
At this point, Clive was in fact a control ahead of me, and I was aware this sort of effort was not remotely good enough. However, being philosophical, I reckoned I was still in with a chance of outperforming the NGOC guys even with these errors (I was right), so plugged away running as hard as I dared. Dropped Jeremy & got on "with my own race"; pretty much clean from there on, a couple of small pauses but nothing major. Enjoyed the gaffling bit and really pushed the boat out here - splendid split on no 16 & I knew it (over 10% faster than anyone else). Running hard up hills and putting myself through internal pain, splits later on show I was closing on the Clivemaster - especially uphills. Too little too late!
Very tired at finish and no real warm down. BOK 1 & 2, and won heat, and sat outside Abi's car for hours just chilling & socialising in glorious sunshine. Better weather by a long way than this field in late April 2012!!!! (BOK Trot blizzard)
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