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Sunday Mar 19, 2017 #
12 PM
Running warm up/down 39:00 [3] 8.4 km (4:39 / km)
shoes: Asics Gel Fuji #2
Running race 53:20 [3] 10.4 km (5:08 / km) +570m 4:02 / km
shoes: VJ iRock #2
First SHR champs race of the year - Criffel. Everyone said it was boggy. It was boggy. Boggy like a big bog. Like the boggiest bog in bogifornia. But on a 1:4 slope.
Anyway, turns out GG is a better bogtrotter than me and he pulled away on the second half of the climb. I dug deep to hang onto Fin and summited 5s behind him. I roughly held that on the slightly less boggy (but still quite boggy) bit across to Knockendoch but on the steep bit after that he just vanished. Well, at least i didn't see him as i was staring at the bog 2m in front of me and trying to avoid faceplanting in it. I reckon i had about a 99.98% success rate at that. The 0.02% wasn't much fun though.
Thankfully the guys behind me seemed to be floundering just as much so i held on for a comfortable 3rd place. Need to do a bit more hill work before the next ones!
Anyway, turns out GG is a better bogtrotter than me and he pulled away on the second half of the climb. I dug deep to hang onto Fin and summited 5s behind him. I roughly held that on the slightly less boggy (but still quite boggy) bit across to Knockendoch but on the steep bit after that he just vanished. Well, at least i didn't see him as i was staring at the bog 2m in front of me and trying to avoid faceplanting in it. I reckon i had about a 99.98% success rate at that. The 0.02% wasn't much fun though.
Thankfully the guys behind me seemed to be floundering just as much so i held on for a comfortable 3rd place. Need to do a bit more hill work before the next ones!
Running warm up/down 16:00 [3] 2.6 km (6:09 / km)
shoes: VJ iRock #2