meall a'bhuachaille

pretty pleased with my run until talked over race with manny who informed me that he tore his calf at the start and limped/ struggled/jogged round... 7 mins and 27 places ahead. when my calf goes, i stop and phone the wife for a lift home. still, he was fast enough off his arse for the banana loaf post race.

so it was manny 14th/57.16 , scott mckendrick 41st/ 64mins, john donnelly,in controversial tartan lycra boxers, 62nd/ 67mins 4secs and brenda paul 136th/ 91mins 36 secs.

my first visit to glenmore since 1983, it was a great setting for an interesting wee race. a quick start required to avoid bottlenecks on single track climb with heather/bracken and tired legs stopping me from picking up any places on the climb. ran for a bit behind jd but the rocking motion of his tartan lycras was making me sick on the climb, so i drew attention to his undone lace and carried on. a nice sharp rocky path descent from the first top with a quick climb to the second and it was onto the fun bit... a good single-foot path to begin with then some heather acrobatics and it was onto the hard packed path/track stuff. not too bad going down but then someone threw in a bugger of a wee climb on the road! reverted back to the old shuffle before a cracking short steep bit and then track to finish. will be writing to santa on behalf of jd...those short/pants are unacceptable, please think of the other runners.

Posted by unknown on Mon 19 Nov 2007 | 3 comments

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