Monday, March 03, 2008

Bleasdale

Enjoyable, but disappointing (can't remember the last time a race wasn't).

As ever, the fields were waterlogged, the climb was hard, the saddle was windy and very cold, and just a bit too rocky underfoot to take full advantage of the gradual descent, the final climb was hard, the fell descent rough and the run in waterlogged.

I passed t'Yorkshireman going down to the saddle, he caught me up on top of Parlick, then I managed to run away from him on the final descent. My time of 62 something was way outside my sub 60 target ~ hence "disappointing".

Horwich got 1st (Darren Kay) and second (James Kevan) and probably some vets prizes (Dave Massey, Graham Schofield, Kev Gaskell and Paul Murray) and probably the team prize. Suzanne Budgett and Rachel Metcalf were also out and seemed to be going well but no results yet.

Lunched on a fine beefburger in the Green Man at Inglewhite rather than the pie and peas on offer in the village hall.

EtU

PS ~ Just realised that the blog now seems to have just reached its second birthday. First entry was Bleasdale 2006 ~ similar story!

Ed
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3 comments:

Anonymous said...

Sorry to hear the outing at Bleasdale was disappointing. Obviously you were short of an adequate warm-up, a matter discussed by the Saturday committee in your absence. It was decided that such a short race starting so late in the day was no excuse for non appearance at the Lower Barn at 8.30 but fell short of making attendance under such circumstances compulsory.

Last Saturday was an excellent squad outing. JtE going well, especially as we neared the Lower Barn car park, YJ had a 14-mile preliminary to a 10K cross country race up hill and down muddy dale in 53 minutes, and NLN disappeared over the horizon towards Belmont in search of further miles.

See you at the Lower Barn on Saturday, 8.30

7:56 pm
Anonymous said...

This committee knows what it's talking about don't it?

1:09 pm
Anonymous said...

Pie n peas were a bit minimalist - maybe they have nouvelle cuisine in Bleasdale - the pie was challenging in that it didn't want to part from the foil - not just mine but most were having the same problem. I was quite satisfied with my run apart from the ridge were I would expect to make greater speed but I suppose the surface made it difficult for a numpty like me. Anyway wasn't last and wasn't timed out. Going to take it easy tomorrow (always say that and go off too hard). Suppose I'll be the only one from Horwich as I presume the shuffler is not back to full mileage yet (or is he?)

6:38 pm

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