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Sunday Sep 18, 2011 #
8 AM
Running race 5:55:26 [3] 23.9 km (14:52 / km) +1050m 12:12 / km
Mourne Mountain Marathon Elite - Day 2.
Well the sun that was forcast for Sunday had not materialised. In fact we woke up to the sound of such heavy rain and strong wind I thought I was at the OMM and certainly didn't want to get out of the tent!
Aparently the cloud base was 2100m...which meant we were camping above 2100m...
The start was a mass start so whilst we didn't know who the team 9minutes behind us were, I'm pretty sure they knew who we were and had a target! The first 2 legs were long! We probably lost a bit of time faffing with clothing and how many layers were required as although it was wet windy and wild it was also reasonably mild.
We arrived at 2 with another team and Wil immediately went for loosing them in the clag. Visibility was 20m at this point and we hammered it across the bog tussock monster to spike the next control and get the fastest split of the day for it :-)
The terrain was a bit different today with less steep ground but much more deep bog and big tussocks!
Pattrick Higgins and Johnny McCloy passed us at control 3 and were flying!! They went flying back past us at 4 and we arrived at 5 just after them to find them with the leading 2 teams and no control to be seen. There was a bit of a jumbled mess of decisions about carrying on or hunting, we checked out the other 2 sites that could be described as 'track end' before deciding it wasn't a misprinted grid ref, and continuing. We probably faffed around for about 30mins here!
We were racing with one of the top 2 teams after this effective 'restart' and were still doing well on the Nav, keeping with them until control 10. Next came a climb up a hill, traverse and then swift drop down to the finish!
We finished 7th on day 2 but only 30minutes behind the winners! Overall we were 7th (the team 9mins behind having had a stormer to finish 2nd on the day) and 1st Mixed team by 4hrs 15mins :-) First Elite MM done!
Well the sun that was forcast for Sunday had not materialised. In fact we woke up to the sound of such heavy rain and strong wind I thought I was at the OMM and certainly didn't want to get out of the tent!
Aparently the cloud base was 2100m...which meant we were camping above 2100m...
The start was a mass start so whilst we didn't know who the team 9minutes behind us were, I'm pretty sure they knew who we were and had a target! The first 2 legs were long! We probably lost a bit of time faffing with clothing and how many layers were required as although it was wet windy and wild it was also reasonably mild.
We arrived at 2 with another team and Wil immediately went for loosing them in the clag. Visibility was 20m at this point and we hammered it across the bog tussock monster to spike the next control and get the fastest split of the day for it :-)
The terrain was a bit different today with less steep ground but much more deep bog and big tussocks!
Pattrick Higgins and Johnny McCloy passed us at control 3 and were flying!! They went flying back past us at 4 and we arrived at 5 just after them to find them with the leading 2 teams and no control to be seen. There was a bit of a jumbled mess of decisions about carrying on or hunting, we checked out the other 2 sites that could be described as 'track end' before deciding it wasn't a misprinted grid ref, and continuing. We probably faffed around for about 30mins here!
We were racing with one of the top 2 teams after this effective 'restart' and were still doing well on the Nav, keeping with them until control 10. Next came a climb up a hill, traverse and then swift drop down to the finish!
We finished 7th on day 2 but only 30minutes behind the winners! Overall we were 7th (the team 9mins behind having had a stormer to finish 2nd on the day) and 1st Mixed team by 4hrs 15mins :-) First Elite MM done!