Saturday Dec 15 |
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| Event: Falkland Trail Race
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 | Running race 41:44 [5]9.6 km (4:21 / km) vdot: 47.0 | |
| shoes: Brooks Adrenaline GTS |
| Falkland Trail Race, just under 10km - was very festive as when we got there we found that the first 100 entrants got a Santa suit to run in!
There were a few Bah Humbug types who wore their normal kit but it was very funny standing around at the start with lots of other Santas - thought the suit would be a hindrance when running but wasn't too bad albeit v warm with the hat on - I did discard the beard though!
Couldn't keep with Jase when he pushed on in the middle section to try and catch Fraser - they were mid 20s in 40:20 and 40:26 with Fraser still just ahead. Jamie S was the fastest of us in low 39s and somewhere in the top 15, held on well after a fast start left him with stitch for most of the race.
Fairly happy except a bit weak in the middle section and lost about 10 places there - plus I couldn't catch the santa carrying a delivery satchel who was in front of me all the way - made a big effort to get there in the last km but he got me by two places!
ho ho ho |
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| C • Vdot 8 |
Wednesday Dec 12 |
| Orienteering 43:18 [4]*** 5.3 km (8:10 / km) | |
| spiked:14/17c shoes: VJ Falcon |
| FVO night race at Minewoods, mass start as usual. Steve B sneaked off the front but got run down by Jamie on the final leg - Fraser and I missed #15 together when we were close behind and so finished 3 mins back.
Lots of route choice especially in the urban bit at beginning and end of the course - kept it interesting the whole time.
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Sunday Dec 9 |
| Orienteering race 1:32:34 [3]*** 9.2 km (10:04 / km) | |
| spiked:12/20c shoes: VJ Falcon |
| National Event at Longshaw M40L. Started off running okay but missing everything, set the tone at #1 by running straight past telling myself 'it is 1:15,000 today, don't stop too soon' !!
Lengthy untimed river crossing in the middle and it was nasty steep bramble/bracken/boulder terrain for a while after that, just never got back into trying hard round the second half, just cruised back. Did feel tired though so not sure how effective it would have been to try hard anyway. Due for a couple of days off now, feel like I need them - a lot! |