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Saturday Sep 17, 2011 #
10 AM
Running race 6:50:58 [3] 29.0 km (14:10 / km) +1850m 10:45 / km
Mourne Mountain Marathon Elite - Day 1.
After coming 2nd overall and 1st Mix on the B in 2008 its taken an entire 3 years for us to finally get round to doing the elite, Wil being ill 2 years ago and me being post Terrex crippled last year.
We set off and it looked like the weather was going to be damp. The clag was down for the first 2 controls and whilst the 1st was not a problem, at control 2 Hurricane Irene had created about 60 new rivers that were most definately a smooth hillside on the map. We spent 20 minutes playing pot luck stream hunting, probably hitting the right one 2 or 3 times, before leading 3 teams into the control - rubbish!
We were then in a head to head race with Harold and Mark, but took different route choices and they ran off into the distance somewhere. The terrain in the Mournes is some of the roughest I've run on, unrelenting tussocky bog rocky rough on steep ascent or descent at all times!
We got through the free choice route section, choosing the same control order as the overall winners then were presented with a path! The first time all day and I got excited when Wil said it was only 3miles back to the finish! So we stormed it! Shame there was actually another hill to traverse to the finish that he had overlooked!
Finished in 6th Position, 1hr10 behind the leaders, having dropped only 10 more minutes to Harold and Mark in the rest of the course! And were 1hr and 50minutes ahead of 2nd MIX pair!!
After coming 2nd overall and 1st Mix on the B in 2008 its taken an entire 3 years for us to finally get round to doing the elite, Wil being ill 2 years ago and me being post Terrex crippled last year.
We set off and it looked like the weather was going to be damp. The clag was down for the first 2 controls and whilst the 1st was not a problem, at control 2 Hurricane Irene had created about 60 new rivers that were most definately a smooth hillside on the map. We spent 20 minutes playing pot luck stream hunting, probably hitting the right one 2 or 3 times, before leading 3 teams into the control - rubbish!
We were then in a head to head race with Harold and Mark, but took different route choices and they ran off into the distance somewhere. The terrain in the Mournes is some of the roughest I've run on, unrelenting tussocky bog rocky rough on steep ascent or descent at all times!
We got through the free choice route section, choosing the same control order as the overall winners then were presented with a path! The first time all day and I got excited when Wil said it was only 3miles back to the finish! So we stormed it! Shame there was actually another hill to traverse to the finish that he had overlooked!
Finished in 6th Position, 1hr10 behind the leaders, having dropped only 10 more minutes to Harold and Mark in the rest of the course! And were 1hr and 50minutes ahead of 2nd MIX pair!!