So today was the day. Nerves weren’t that bad. But forgot my badge in the morning. Had to hold up the bus, and get the receptionist to unscrew the door handle as the key was in the other side. So my heartbeat got quite high before the race.
Quarantine was grand, until it started raining out of the heavens. Then I just decided to take the rain as I was out in forty minutes.
The race. Was feeling good all round. Even my two-minute man from the almighty Czech Republic didn’t phase me. Race Report:
1-Had a plan and executed it perfectly
2- Had a plan and executed it perfectly
3- Had a plan. Lost 20 seconds coming in too high
4-No plan, two minutes lost.
5-Not a full plan. Just ran quite close to the line. Got to the road and thought I saw scattered trees so started to peg it up the road. So stupid because I knew where I had come down the last re-entrant and it was nowhere near that low. Never found the bends in the track and in the end lost 5 minutes.
6-Lost a few seconds on top of crags before re-entrant
7-Had a plan for the first half of the leg, but then nothing resulting in time lost!
8-Just ran up the hill. Lucky I didn’t lose more time than I did.
9-Easy even without plan
10-Didn’t read map enough. Just kept running even though I couldn’t pick out the rocks around me on the map. Retarded. Lucky to hit 11
11-Knew where it was
12-Crap route
13-Didn’t see better route to east.
14-Wrecked but spike
15-Wrecked but spike
16-Spike
Finish-I need to get some technique and some strength on the hills before I perform at international level. I have 12 months
TRAC TRAC