Mountain run/walk 5:22:37 [3] 25.49 km (12:39 / km) +1262m 10:09 / km
shoes: VJ Falcon Aug 2015
Day 2, 20.6km.
Generally easier terrain today for our weary legs and dodgy ankles, although a brutal climb up towards #7 where I was flagging badly. Downhill at the end always helps :)
The course definitely could have been tricky in yesterday's clag (number three particularly) but it was mainly clear today except at the highest points.
We were 11th overall in the end, passed one team but passed by three. Really not too bad all things considered.
My first OMM since the epic abandoned Lakes event of 2008.
The previous year in 2007 I was also 11th on B, with Phil that time.
Pretty much twice the number of finishers in 2007 vs 2016 (1053 then, 573 this year) and even more of a difference on B - in 2007 there were 224 starters (and only 123 finishers), this year just 56 starters and 45 finishers.
Still a pretty decent size of event but not the huge event it was ten years ago - I thought the organisation including the whole attitude and approach of the volunteers and helpers was really impressive this year so I hope they start to see numbers swell again.