Close to logging this as swimming...
A floating/trouble-shooting marshal so not necessarily required. Went for a run around the course to check markers, but had to sit around for 20 minutes waiting for the heavy rain to turn into light rain.
Quite a lot of snow down but, wow, it was wet! Running against quite a "flow" right from the race start which was hard work, and then on the flat vehicle track east (into the wind) was sliding everywhere and managed to go down completely at one point.
Next climb parallel to the gorge was wet and rough, then wet and icy rocks as we went in, then off the path completely and steep drop through heather into a lake... Stopped beforehand as couldn't see the markers (fog), then worked out where to go and moved all the markers back a bit to be more visible.
Road was wet. Had taken a lot more time than expected to get here so cut out the loop of Gilwern Hill (Dave Austin was doing this anyway) and stuck to the road. After a while came to a river across the road which looked "interesting" to cross. Then saw lots of race markers pointing up the river... Quite rocky so walk but water was only just over knee deep and lasted for 100m before out again.
Much wetter in the standing water by the quarry faces - well above knee deep and waist deep in places (and very cold - still ice on tops of some) but by this point was soaked through so aiming for the water as much easier running than the mud/rocks on sides! Started on the rope climb but after about 10m ascent determined I wouldn't be able to do the last bit without the rope having already been rolled down so backed out and went around.
The last long straight down was by far the wettest I've ever seen it, and it's normally wet and boggy. Several hundred yards continuous over knee deep and about 50 yards waist deep at the end. Back to the pub just in time to inform the race briefing - and amazed at just how many had turned up (over 50 entries on the day!)
Fantastic running conditions and enjoyed the run. Not a route I would willingly choose so makes a change to be forced to run through it.
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Note - heart stopped just over 5 miles in and didn't start again. Not sure what's causing it, gave it a good clean after Saturday, will tighten the strap up this time.