I started the the second race of the weekend thinking I'd be happy to finish mid table - no point entertaining hopes of a prize on a race like Long Mynd. On the very first climb out of the Carding Mill Valley my quadriceps made clear what a fanciful idea mid table really was and I turned my thoughts to the timing out cut offs. The route was a new one so by the time I was about a third of the way round the course, having lost sight of the group in front of me, I reached for my map and compass. The rest of the outing was a navigational exercise at a very slow pace, taking perhaps 20 minutes longer than it should have done.
Kath and Chica had a hard day too, meeting me at two points on the route and with Kath having taken a muddy bath not long after setting out. Even Chica seemed to have had enough by the time we met up again in the Church Stretton School car park.
Turns out that two in a weekend is hard. Who'd have thought? I'm coming back from an injury, I raced hard the day before and I'm not great at the longer races anyway - the excuses stack up but it's a disappointing result nonetheless. It would be a great place for a BCR winter racing weekend though, so maybe I'll come back to try one more time.
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| Runnable between checkpoints 2 and 3 |
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| Coming away from 11 with Chica (who didn't run the race with me - not allowed!) |
Results: 118th/140 V60: 8th/10 Time: 3:06:40
Distance: 17.7km Climb: 1300m
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