Compass Sport cup final, Cannock chase (Haywood Warren), Blue Men, 6.5km/215m 4th. 4.5 mins down on Dave Peel. Clive 3 mins up.
Good run, started 1 min after Martin Ward who shamed me so badly 3 weeks ago at Pwll Du. Didn't expect to see him, espcially after so-so nos 1 & 2 - no 2 I had no plan B, didn't know where i was, and luckily saw the feature. Close call!
Twice encountered Hollie Orr - no 2-3 (track) & again 7 - 8 (same track) - the 2nd time I finally let her past & followed her to no 8, & out of no 8, and towards no 9 - she was dropping me all the way, but Martin messed up no 9 & I was on him.
Certainly Martin helped me get no 10 but then he went high to no 11 and i contoured in - he won, the control seemed very high.
His gap was enough that when i crested the hill to no 12, he'd gone. I doubted the map here - couldnt' make sense of it - went right, then left, then changed my mind & back right. An extra track here really confused me. I was lucky to only lose a minute+ From here to finish i let rip & was rewarded with fast splits. Too late! Martin had finished. Note: he & others had SI Air, and I wonder if now is the time to finally upgrade.
Pleased; best result for a while; some reasonable scalps taken; Ifor revenge was needed! Thanks to earlier starters for creating the tracks :-) & Undy for going out earlier, & Tim for breaking himself AGAIN, & Chas for hopping round in a frankly amazing time (he was walking on the fast track where I was banging out approx 4:00min/km pace & being dropped by Hollie......)
Finally, thank god i didn't know Simon (EPOC SPOOKSTER) was running, had I known I'd have certainly cocked up a lot more & done worse. I have never *knowingly* (*) beaten him (*) - ie. Known he is running too. Edit: he ran a kilometre (!) further than i did, so I count this as a loss now.
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