The tactic, going against everything John said was to go with the leaders and see what happened... So i hung on in there and suffered through the 10km to finish in 11th position, could have been a possible 9th but i ran out of course to give chase. All in all 33mins for a 10km XC course was very pleasing. Someone took a video of it is well!
The week that followed was one of project work and easy running. As well as a meeting with Paul Mahon. Adventure racing legend. The up coming summer should be fun.
Friday night saw a night MTB session in the Wicklow mountains which had so beautiful views. 40k of sweeping trails and hard pack snow is hard to beat.
Sunday dawned and so did the All Ireland Intermediate XC champs in Lough Key Forest Park in Roscommon.
In a nut shell, i went off to hard, the course was marked out incorrectly, we went the wrong way, we were 2.5km short. It was a fine mess up by the AAI.
Run was a disaster and my attitude during the race was a disgrace.
39th from 115. If i was 20sec faster i would have been top 20...
Winner was 24:13 while i crossed the line in a pathetic 26:57; Fail.
The only positive note was that was lap times were pretty tight -
3:42, 3:58, 4:06, 4:06, 4:06, 3:53, petty there were slow :P
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