Training Log Archive: Whitesheep

British Middle champs - Leith Hill
Excellent stuff. That wasn't really what I thought after finishing as it was a scrappy old race and I must have lost 30s to 2 mins on half the controls. At the finish I was a bit nonplussed, but it was very tricky and I seem to have done well to limit time lost. And it was a cracker of a middle distance race.
Two regrets:
- I knew leith hill was a tricky area and on the day in the murky conditions it was even harder than previously. Would have done better to keep a positive attitude to the end as people were clearly floundering.
- On 19/20/21 I made some very avoidable errors. I was running with a couple of M20s at this point and thinking we'd work off each other I tended to stick with them. Instead we made three people's mistakes rather than just one. Can't help thinking if I'd just done my own thing there I could have been 4-5 mins up and that would have been very good.

One thing I definitely realised from both days, I very rarely if ever do any technical training these days. I need to pick some races to go steady and work on techniques. Don't think it is fitness holding me back at the moment (unusual for me).