I'm not sure if I like short races (10k or below) - theres little room for getting things wrong and you are straight up there into maximum heartrate territory pretty much as soon as you start - so a 5km relay after a hard hill race was all I needed.
As we didn't have a team of four (its a 4 x 5km relay) we recruited a couple of friends - Tom Minshull (who went on to win the overall competition) and John Holden who ended up being first veteran overall.
So we started off in first after the first leg, dropped to 9th after the 2nd leg and ended up finishing 13th team overall - which isn't bad considering the number of 15 minute 5km runners we were up against.
As planned I managed to sneak in under 19 minutes with a personal best of 18:54 - this gave me 5th position overall in the competition which is beyond any expectation.
It really is a great event with athletes from all over the UK and Ireland - the organisation is brilliant and the post race celebrations are excellent too.
As we didn't have a team of four (its a 4 x 5km relay) we recruited a couple of friends - Tom Minshull (who went on to win the overall competition) and John Holden who ended up being first veteran overall.
So we started off in first after the first leg, dropped to 9th after the 2nd leg and ended up finishing 13th team overall - which isn't bad considering the number of 15 minute 5km runners we were up against.
As planned I managed to sneak in under 19 minutes with a personal best of 18:54 - this gave me 5th position overall in the competition which is beyond any expectation.
It really is a great event with athletes from all over the UK and Ireland - the organisation is brilliant and the post race celebrations are excellent too.
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