Last weekend I entered a 5 mile cross-country race with several other Momentum Sports athletes.  Unfortunately, this is 20 times as far as I normal race - so 5% into it I was starting to hope for the finish line!

Only by setting off VERY steadily, did I manage to make it round what was a pretty hilly course in a vaguely respectable 36.45mins.  It was a little disconcerting that I was beaten by 3 minutes by a guy in his mid-60s, but he is a quality runner.  I was an even more distant 8 minutes behind the winner of the race!

Despite feeling like it would never end and hoping a big hole would swallow me up for much of the race (or at least someone would chuck a nice big bucket of water over me as it was a very warm day), in retrospect it was pretty good fun.  I had a good tussle with 4 others - beating two in the end and losing out to the other two.

As this is a once yearly thing for me - I am now fully fuelled up with banter for a while and will definitely be back in 12 months time (in which time I'll have run lots of my preferred 400m distance!).

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