IOC Relays, Mens Open, Leim Oirthiar, 5.3km, 170m, 19 controls. 3leg leg with Boyzone and CillinC. Boyzone had a great first leg, running with a pack and running fast, the only problem was he failed to check one code... One code was all it took. Cillin was solid enough (he wouldn’t be half bad if he did some training!) which set me off about 6 minutes behind Roar for CNOC. They knew and I knew that there was nothing to race for so I just enjoyed myself and kept it clean, closed the gap a bit but without the pressure of running scared Roar was never going to lose much time. With a healthy Dooby and a healthy in the head Boyzone the game would certainly have been on.
Quality weekend, the type of technical and physical terrain that you just can’t get in Britain – crossing a couple of fences were the only liner features that I saw all weekend, every footstep was in terrain (and very soft and wet it was too) and every leg demanded attention. Definitely one of the best areas that I’ve run on for some time and I look forward to going back, though hopefully when it doesn’t rain all weekend – have been spoilt by good British weather for too long and had forgotten when the forecast in the west of Ireland says a chance of cloud, it means that it will be wet, not heavy rain but just very damp air!
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