Originally Posted by Stagger
Longdogs won in the Ladies sectionAnd I came in, somewhere near the back. First race of this year and it's shown me just how fat and unfit I really have become. Great to see all the familiar faces again.
Cracking race this one. Would make for an excellent English Champs AS.
The winds took your breath away. On the last decent I must have been leaning in at 45 degrees and still being held up by the wind.
Props to the organisers
The Journey of 1000 miles starts with a single step
Did this today. There was no mention about this on the forum, perhaps the guys down in Shropshire like to keep it quiet and low key,but, this has to be one of the best and most intense short races in the calendar. A truly outstanding route. Thanks to Mercia for great organisation. By coincidence my time today was exactly the same time as I did last Saturday at the National XC champs............came a little higher up the pack though!!
did it today too!
Lovely day for it and cracking course.
....it's all downhill from here.
they were also trialling an new counting system, which involved penning us at the start and an elastic band drop half way through. Seemed OK from a runners point of view: hope it met RO expectations.
....it's all downhill from here.
I like trying races I haven't previously done and today's Carding Mill canter didn't disappoint. Whoever named this race canter, has one hell of a sense of humour. It's a tough short, not in the technical sense but certainly in the dig deep hands on knees and crack on type of race. Like all the races in this area the organisation was excellent, thank you to all involved.
some rather good aerial footage here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cgBeNOivuQ
....it's all downhill from here.
Thinking about doing this on Saturday. Looking like a very cold, snowy run.
Anyone know what conditions are currently like?
Last edited by PeteS; 28-02-2018 at 02:07 PM.
Pete Shakespeare - U/A
Going downhill fast
I had been hoping to do this as well. But really I need to get injury-free before the longer races start coming thick and fast, so unfortunately i'll most probably be missing this one.
race still seems to be going ahead, parking is at Church Stretton school, NOT in the Carding Mill Valley.
Current conditions:
http://myndcam.com/
(wind chill of -13!)
....it's all downhill from here.
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