The XC thread

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SPR Nov 2013 9:59pm, 9 Nov 2013 18,861 posts	SPR Some advice on the ditch from one of our runners to other club runners: "Far left and right side are safe, but right side is steep. Centre left is a cavern to the centre of the earth." I take it you went centre left, SD? He was also right with this: "I strongly advise 15mm spikes, 12mm absolutely minimum tomorrow." but I missed that part, lol.
oi you Dec 2013 3:43pm, 7 Dec 2013 167 posts	oi you Hooray for me - 1st race in around 6 months since I started struggling with a hernia. Kent Vets XC at Bexley & I finished around 31st of 42 M60s.
RichHL Dec 2013 4:00pm, 7 Dec 2013 7,953 posts	RichHL Hooray for you! All the cool people have hernias.
SPR Dec 2013 4:53pm, 7 Dec 2013 18,896 posts	SPR Nice one Oi you Went to support my club's women at Wolverhampton as I'm not fit enough to race atm and that was closer than the men's fixture. looked like there was one big climb by the railway and they managed to make the course very twisty from what I saw.
SPR Dec 2013 4:53pm, 7 Dec 2013 18,897 posts	SPR twas muddy as well.
Frobester Jan 2014 10:30am, 13 Jan 2014 24,531 posts	Frobester Excellent 5 miles over Dunstable Downs yesterday for the final 3-counties league race - beautiful sunshine, crisp frost underfoot, well-organised, and an aptly-named Heartbreak Hill! Not to mention the approach to the finish line peppered with nicely vocal coaches encouraging their charges to GET UP THERE!
Mr. K. Jan 2014 1:09pm, 16 Jan 2014 3,365 posts	Mr. K. Thames Valley XC League note...... The Metros XC (26th Jan) is cancelled.... tvxc.org.uk :-/
Garfield Jan 2014 1:16pm, 16 Jan 2014 4,126 posts	Garfield I couldn't do our race last Saturday...knee said no. One of the girls had a very nasty landing...and ended up in hospital...tripped over root, landed on knee on a rock.:(
ndellar Jan 2014 1:39pm, 16 Jan 2014 2,913 posts	ndellar I have neglected this thread a bit. Garfield hope she is ok! SPR - I ran at Wolverhampton before Xmas - woeful performance. Course wasn't too bad, pace was OK-ish but I felt shocking. All the people I am usually around went sailing past and I was about 1 min behind them. Shortly after I got told I was anaemic which explained a lot! The Worcestershire / Warwickshire counties at Halesowen the other week was great fun, mud comparable to the infamous Alton Towers National in places. Praise the lord for Iron suppliments because I seem to have regained my form, I was 2-3 mins ahead of the people who were in front of me at Wolves. Thought maybe it was a fluke result because I'm better at muddy and slightly undulating, but I seemed to repeat it again at Droitwich last Saturday albeit with a cold. Quite looking forward to the Midlands, National and the last Birmingham League race - never run at Cheltenham before.
Garfield Jan 2014 3:22pm, 16 Jan 2014 4,128 posts	Garfield Poor girl is going to be out for a little while...had to have it stitched up. I feel a bit badly about it as the week before she said she was never going to XC again and I managed to get her out with brownies for us...she got hers after she was fixed up and home again (spent overnight in hospital).:(