Yesterday evening evening I made the journey up to Maryport for the Ellenborough 10k. I’d ridden to work on Monday and rested on the Tuesday, more out of lack of time in the day than real proper rest. My legs felt fairly heavy warming up, as I tucked myself away before hand.
It was a warm evening again, and again I set off too quickly, but for the first 3 miles everything was good, I settled into a good pace and rhythm and enjoyed the long climb away from the town, and was happy to find myself in 2nd place, but strangely just as the route took us down hill again, my legs started tying up and I got stitch. This meant a miserable mile 3 to 5, when I dropped down to 4th place, and then dropped another place on the run in down the main road. In the end I was still tired from Saturday and couldn’t sustain the pace. I finished in 5th place in a bit of a disappointing time. But looking on the bright side I finished first V35 – my first vet prize ever! I was behind a V40 and a V45 but we’ll gloss over that…! I then felt ready for a rest! It was lovely to be treated with homemade pizza at friends afterwards!
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