Quite a long drive to the halfway race of my sixty, to that National park at the bottom of Wales, you know the one - Bannau Brycheiniog. Katie and Tim decided to bag another race, what with it being only an hour from Bristol, so this is another fell running excuse for a get-together.
The race route is quite straightforward, or so it appears, and it would be lovely to do it at an easier pace on a nice day. Tim fires off with the front runners, taking a wrong turn in the village and immediately losing three minutes. Katie and I, more circumspect, trot unerringly on to the hillside. The fastest out of that careless group pass quite soon but Tim doesn’t catch me till the very highest point. He then takes off at speed down the easy path, following the group, as I knw he would, round the end of the ridge to the second checkpoint, at a stile into the valley fields. Meanwhile, I descend directly through the bracken, get back in front and finish a field length ahead. Result!
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Results: 12th/64 V60: 2nd/7 Time: 53:09
Tim: 17th in 54:00 Katie: 28th in 1:00:17
Distance: 9km Climb: 383m
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