that's where the *real* athletes race.
good stuff shane!
Impressive stuff - had you started training a few months earlier you'd have had no problem with the IOC classic - you see that you were in seconds with about 2km to go?
Agreed it's all about the downhill, that's where the fun is anyways - had the IOC Classic not had that last uphill then I may have been able to hold my pace, but planners of classic races always seem to throw in a climb ~2km before the end!
Respect for the downhill... now go climb some hills!
Downhill... You just took it easy on the course and hammered the run-in...
Where was the big climb at 2km from the end of the JK long? The same race that you got hammered on the run-in by your wife...
I used to specialise in downhill, but after one injury too many I made myself a promise - whatever position I was at the summit that was where I'd finish. I wouldn't attempt to pass people on the way down. I actually managed at least one win after that when I got to the top first (Kippure).
What if someone passed you?
No-one ever passed me downhill. Just a fact.
5 years fell racing, never yet been passed on a downhill or on the flat at the end of the race.
Suggesting I should be racing higher up the field...
Or on the track - leg speed, stride length.
Everyone has to experience "one injury too many" to be wise to running downhill too fast...I have a knee niggle from the weekend but it still ain't too many to slow me down the hills!
I have yet to sustain a running downhill injury and will continue to put my life in the hands of my intuitive foot placement.