Training Log Archive: Alex M

Event: OMM
 

Started well, then both me and Matt started to slow after about 20km, both had something to eat/drink, but then found I was steadily moving away from Matt and we weren't moving as fast as we had been to begin with. Got onto the limestone and both of us slowed considerably through the rougher stuff (dismissed the path route, which would have been much quicker) Leaving the last control in the limestone we saw Quentin and Zoe coming into it, having taken the path route and 5 mins out of us on that leg. Decided we had already lost a lot of time and just tried to finish the day without them beating us into the finish.
Turned out we were 2nd team to finish the C course on day 1, which is suprising given some teams had a 2 hour head start on us. Ended up just over 30 mins down on the Hardings, and just over 30 mins ahead of the Allens (3rd overnight).

HPM Training run. Easy pace, had to wait for the rest of the group at quite a few places. Ran down to Broomhill to meet them, then through Endcliffe to the park, all the way up Porter, around the road and then fields to the bottom of Redmires, back along the top of Rivelin, past some stables and back in through Crookes.