Thursday, January 03, 2013

Results Update

The long course results are now on the web page (click on the link in the previous posting)

Did comparatively better on that time-wise than on the Nine Standards race (results now here http://fellrunner.org.uk/results.php?id=1793 ) . Mind you it does help to employ a certain amount of cunning strategy which you don't get in a normal fell race. Set off first, let the fast ones come sailing past and let them spend ++mins looking for the 2ft wide concrete inspection cover that was cp5. Not easy with it only being about 6 inches proud of the surrounding moor. Homing in on the group of runners I was able to come strolling up and find it without any bother.

Experience from a previous event (paired with KLM) looking for a similar but larger man-made feature, meant I knew that trying to find it coming from cp6 would have been like looking for the proverbial needle in a haystack. As it turned out, the clockwise route didn't make it much easier.

Need to be doing some reps tonight to start the improvement for fell races. It's the only cunning strategy I can think to help with those!

TF

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