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Saturday Sep 16, 2017 #
Running - Trail race (Mourne MM Day1) 5:33:32 [5] 30.14 km (11:04 / km) +2095m 8:13 / km
ahr:135 max:177 shoes: X-Talon 212 (May 17)
First MM doing Elite, was half excited and half nervous. Had enough food to be out for about 7 hours each day.
Worst possible start: the first control description is of the start, not of number 1. And the rows are offset by one, as the start doesn't have a code; ie the title rows of each column aren't in the same row. This is hard to explain, but basically it involved us finding the first control and then wasting literally 14 minutes looking for another control in more or less the same place. We are very annoyed once we realised this. Looking at our GPS plot you'd have no idea what we were messing about at. We are both equally to blame for this,I think, Tom did it first but I didn't notice either.
After that, really good.good choices, good nav, good running.won a couple of legs which was awesome.one mistake where they've built some more paths near the reservoir so the map isn't quite right, but otherwise pretty perfect.weather was mostly dry, some rain late in the day and in the evening.
Amazed to come 4th, and only a few minutes behind 2nd?! We were hating ourselves for our initial stupidity but also very happy with the result even despite it, knowing that we were still within a good shout of 2nd.
No injuries or anything and felt fine afterwards.bring on day2!
Worst possible start: the first control description is of the start, not of number 1. And the rows are offset by one, as the start doesn't have a code; ie the title rows of each column aren't in the same row. This is hard to explain, but basically it involved us finding the first control and then wasting literally 14 minutes looking for another control in more or less the same place. We are very annoyed once we realised this. Looking at our GPS plot you'd have no idea what we were messing about at. We are both equally to blame for this,I think, Tom did it first but I didn't notice either.
After that, really good.good choices, good nav, good running.won a couple of legs which was awesome.one mistake where they've built some more paths near the reservoir so the map isn't quite right, but otherwise pretty perfect.weather was mostly dry, some rain late in the day and in the evening.
Amazed to come 4th, and only a few minutes behind 2nd?! We were hating ourselves for our initial stupidity but also very happy with the result even despite it, knowing that we were still within a good shout of 2nd.
No injuries or anything and felt fine afterwards.bring on day2!