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[Starsky]

I can run up here in the race but often you have the problem of others walking up in front. the other problem is you have to go out hard at the start so you don't get stuck in the bottle neck so your muscles are suffering from oxygen depletion. I try and ease back on the field below to try and recover a little bit as runners go past but they are wrecked at the top. I then push on the upper field.

Ah yes but as we have already established IDP, you are a machine!

Like you're thinking though, I was wondering whether the fact that we've just come off a fast road section had a bearing on our (or my!) ability to get up the hill well. Think the tendency is to think that it's a short race so you have to go flat out but it would seem you can apply a bit more intelligence to it than that!