Trail/Terrain 1:03:07 [5] 13.7 km (4:36 / km) +560m 3:50 / km
(injured) shoes: VJ Irock
WWR Leg 5.
Can't remember ever feeling this bad running a race before. Culmination of three days rest, trying to recover from tuesday's bone bruise, and generally not much training the last few weeks as a result of escalation of tibialis injury. Tibialises were very bad the whole way as was the bone bruise. Calves were on the verge of cramping the whole way and my lower leg felt like it was about to snap in half on the descent. Crusaders dude cruised past me and I just had nothing, just felt like I was crawling the whole way. Hit the boardwalk and got a new lease of life for the descent, despite the pain I was relatively happy with it.
Time is a bit terrible. Could have been 60 feeling good with leg pain. 57-58 if my physiology was normal. Dropped from 3rd to 4th on the leg which is quite disappointing. Managed 3rd overall though which was cool.
Trail/Terrain warm up/down 8:45 [2] 1.2 km (7:17 / km)
shoes: VJ Irock
Only got 1minute in the river before the rain started which was very annoying. Much colder than the ice baths I've been doing. Some trips to the sea.