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Masters Cross Country Championships
A Park in Bathgate
This was the hardest effort I have ever put in, to feel so slow... Why was this race so hard? The weather wasn't great, but there was no arctic gale a la Irvine, nor the mud of Kirkie, just very soft (i.e. wet) undulating ground (always up?) and loads of very fast women. I think this was the problem, they were just too darn fast. It nearly killed me to keep up. Next year I think we should all have a pact to run slower, we will all feel much better at the end.
Jane, Muffy and Pauline braved the gruelling pace and brought the team in at 6th position. Thanks to the guys for lots of support. Chris appeared to have a great run, and Bill looked fresh as a daisy. Jason looked remarkably happy (was he running the same course?), Don and Grim looked more like people who were trying. Thank goodness the last of the season!
Posted by Muffy Calder on Sun 4 Mar 2007 | 4 comments
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JasonHappyBunny said...
Well done ladies on 6th, maybe that's why you were hurting Muffy, you were fast! Also Chris on a great time to come 20th. A good turn out of Westies and a hard course; fast, muddy and just the hilly side of undulatng made for a tiring run. Muffy was right, I did look happy, because I wasn't pushing it too hard, knowing I had a three race weekend planned, so kept my hrm average 2 beats under marathon hrm. Felt ok, but now I am worrying will I have any speed after all this? You just can't win. Pleased enough with my run.
Sunday 4th March 2007 6.15pm
jd said...
results here = http://www.scottishathletics.org.uk/index.php?p=80&itemType=fixtures&itemId=620
Sunday 4th March 2007 8.41pm
Chris said...
A few photos here
Men's resultsWomen's results
Monday 5th March 2007 3.56pm
Grim o' Glaur said...
Aye...as Muffy said (or was it Westyon Churchill?) "It will be long..it will be hard...it will be muddy..and there will be NO WITHDRAWAL!"What a difference a month makes! the Falkirk Nationals were such a nice race, and Bathgate (on the face of it) should have been more of the same - undulating muddy parkland - but after a mere 200 yards I knew I was in a race that would separate the men from the buffties (and guess which I was?). Well done Chris, but Jason, don't get so far ahead - it's demoralising enough being licked by a 70 year old, already! I love Bathgate though - one of those towns which will never appear in a magazine Lifestyle supplement, if you follow my drift. I managed to get to the open-air market just before it closed. Too late to buy a gold Ali G style shell-suit, but I got a closed bag of "5 pun o' tatties", which on opening revealed 5 giant spuds. I'll have had my chips!
Monday 5th March 2007 7.36pm