Tamar Triple day 3 - my 2nd day, Mt Edgcumbe, hot day, great views of Plymouth, Clive running M21 (why?), middle distance race, 4.6km/ 255m (steep!)
** WOKE UP IN PAIN IN MY LOWER BACK AS AIRBED Wasn't PROPERLY INFLATED - T\HIS IS NO GOOD PHILIP **
Another trying journey there. sigh.
Hot - very fast start on grass (though splits would show later than Megan Carter-Davies was a lot quicker - how? I was legging it like mad)
no 4 - huge problem here - missed it, overshot, back in off fence corner, STILL no flag - WTF? turned round in despair - another run ruined? - and there it was "tucked away" Not best pleased. That meant I did not win today's course. 90 seconds lost..... at least.
small misses later eg. no 10 as I had lost my sense of direction on an easy leg & could not get head around terrain in circle, for about 30 seconds.
From there on in, running as hard as I could considering I was knackered in the heat & on the steep hills by now, and some good legs, some a bit shoddy. Very fast open land later saw me push myself hard & win these legs in the main - but it hurt. It has to!
Dead at finish - can I race 6 days in a row? (answer: no, but not cos of this race)
Pleased to be SW Middle M50 champ, but victory somewhat hollowed by a) Clive running m21 (where he was stuffed out of sight), b) Pete Ward reasserting himself 90 seconds quicker than me, and I was going to say c) Lucy Butt appeared to finish in a quicker time but results reveal she was actually 30 seconds slower, so I narrowly take her out 2 days in a row. She clearly enjoys her life more than I do, though, which is more important. Megan CD (great to see her back running proper fast!!!) would easily have had me had she not made a couple of too-big errors on her run - one being the route choice 11-12 - a no brainer to a runner like me - go down to huge track/ road, & leg it "hell for leather" to the open ground then stagger up to control. This worked! :-)
back very sore on (deeply trying) drive home (traffic good; weather hot; very tired; needed a nap)
Garmin:
https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/1191317...Routegadget:
http://www.devonoc.routegadget.co.uk/rg2/#111&...RESULT - M50
http://www.cornwallorienteering.org.uk/tamar_tripl...M45: (Pete Ward's revenge)
http://www.cornwallorienteering.org.uk/tamar_tripl...W20 (Megan)
http://www.cornwallorienteering.org.uk/tamar_tripl...W21 (Lucy Butt)
http://www.cornwallorienteering.org.uk/tamar_tripl...