Lancs Cross Country

What a great day we al had in Blackburn last weekend, i think every single person in the team ran well, even those just coming back from injury.

The one down side for me was that i woke saturday morning with the runs and had to visit the loo too many times, despite that i kept topping up my fluids and ran pretty well and achieved my best position in the Lancs to date, next year top 20?????

The youngsters were yet again a credit to themselves and Manx Harriers and really all deserve a pat on the back.
It was a very long day for us all but despite the threat of snow and ice delaying our travel plans we managed to get to Blackburn earlier than ever. Big thanks to Andy Fox who had been in touch with the airline and Coach company in he days leading up to the event to make sure every angle was covered and we got to that start line.
The conditions in Blackburn were very snowy with several inches of snow on all of the course, this was lovely to run on apart from up the saucer where it was like running on sand as it had cut up quite a lot.
I had a quick start and tried to maintain my pace throughout. Last year the downhill section was the worst part of the course for me, this year was almost the oposite and i managed to gain one or two places on most of the laps.
I wonder what conditions we will have thrown at us next year!!!!

I have had an easy week this week, wasn't feeling too good on monday or tuesday still so didn't train, on wednesday i felt a lot better and went for a nice easy 3o minute jog, one thing i noticed was how warm it was compared to recent weeks.
Yesterday i had a tough training hill training session which went very well despite me thinking in warm up that i was feeling lathargic and didn't think i would be able to finish the session.

Next week it's the Manx champs at Glen Lough, it's not my favorite course it has to be said and running 7 instead of the usual 6 laps is going to be very tough.
Don't forget it is DOUBLE POINTS for running the Champs.

More about the Manx Champs later in the week.