There was certainly plenty of mud at today's Peco cross country, but at least we could run through a stream 6 times to wash the mud off. There was a big turnout of runners, with some fast people at the head of the field. I finished 42nd, which is worse than the 35th & 30th places in the two previous Peco events, although it depends on who's running really.
I didn't feel to be running too badly, although I did slow quite a bit on the 3rd lap, being overtaken by Mark I & Nick P. We had a very strong Ilkley team, with 8 runners in the first 22. I've not seen the team results yet, but we must have done very well, although I hear that Abbey had a lot of fast runners out as well. Paul O had a really good run, at the last Peco race I finished just behind him, but he was way in front of me today.
Looking at my Garmin stats, which don't really mean a lot on a very muddy cross country course, I averaged 4:35 per kilometre. I think that this was OK, especially considering what the conditions were like. I think that I am missing a bit of speed, mainly as a result of not running on the track for four weeks & probably also the heavy mileage that I've been doing in recent weeks. Hopefully the lack of speed won't be too much of an issue in the Brass Monkey next week.
I didn't feel to be running too badly, although I did slow quite a bit on the 3rd lap, being overtaken by Mark I & Nick P. We had a very strong Ilkley team, with 8 runners in the first 22. I've not seen the team results yet, but we must have done very well, although I hear that Abbey had a lot of fast runners out as well. Paul O had a really good run, at the last Peco race I finished just behind him, but he was way in front of me today.
Looking at my Garmin stats, which don't really mean a lot on a very muddy cross country course, I averaged 4:35 per kilometre. I think that this was OK, especially considering what the conditions were like. I think that I am missing a bit of speed, mainly as a result of not running on the track for four weeks & probably also the heavy mileage that I've been doing in recent weeks. Hopefully the lack of speed won't be too much of an issue in the Brass Monkey next week.
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