BOC M50 Long, Brown Clee hill,
Course 8.9km / 240 climb
Started ok but stressing re. heel. no 1 fine . rough bearing towards no 2- realised halfway there I wasn't being careful enough - got to "circle" and just - lost 8 minutes, menatally retiring twice. see forthcoming garmin link. It's going to be ugly. And utterly, utterly pathetic / incompetent.
Carried on to no 3 - feeling completely dejected, but somehow, splits say I won this leg - very odd.
Crap at no 7 - too far down / to the right, but then things picked up as it got easier - passed (just!) Neil C at no 9, he seemed to be going strong tho, spiking his control as I faffed & lost 20 seconds at mine.
Achilles/ankle hurt on the road run to no 12, & I actually stopped still at the top - seriously disgruntled now. Again, ridiculously I won this leg!?!?!?!?
Pretty clean & vigorous running from there on in, used no 7 as attackpoitn for no 15 as I was terrified of that vague area; stupidly, tried to sprint past a runner who kept edging ahead, missed no 21 & fell heavily diving back to it - he STILL dibbed before me - ARGH! broke compass, cut both hands, and bashed right knee bloody. (note: this has transpired to be Richard Lecky-Thompson, a familiar name - but sadly he will now think of me as a moron with bad language).
Clean from then on in despite no compass. 2nd last control seemed a bit too far to the right, but a woman popped into it so I veered off... Clive not so lucky ..... I won this split by a long way as a result. (also my typical last minute acceleration).
7th, surprisingly - expected about 20th like in JK Sprint where I made a similar disaster on one leg.
Take out no 2 & I was 4th, which would've been great. shit shit SHIT.
http://siresults.co.uk/2016/boc/individual/m50l_cl...garmin:
https://connect.garmin.com/modern/activity/1149732... - no 2 possibly the mistake of the decade? Jeez.