The XC thread

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Funky Chicken Nov 2014 9:08am, 8 Nov 2014 300 posts	Funky Chicken A real thread-killer I feel like I might be to blame for asking the question in the first place! Good luck everyone running today. I'm holding out for a position in the club's C team one of these days - it's a big club and more than 60 guys usually take part in Met League races. I need to be in the first 30 to score. Hopefully a bit speedier this year if my recent Sunday League performance wasn't just a day I got lucky.
Mave Nov 2014 9:22am, 8 Nov 2014 1,820 posts	Mave I'm thinking of doing my first ever x-c tomorrow. Any top tips?! I hated it at school, but love trail running now. Long leggings an error?
clare1976 Nov 2014 10:31am, 8 Nov 2014 2,929 posts	clare1976 It's been raining most of this morning in Leamington so the mud fest is a certainty! At least the ladies go first, I dread to think what some of the course will be like by the men's 3rd lap!!
SPR Nov 2014 10:57am, 8 Nov 2014 19,708 posts	SPR Yeah, it looks like it's going to be a mudfest.
MartinCunningham Nov 2014 11:52am, 8 Nov 2014 203 posts	MartinCunningham 'Long leggings an error?' in my view yes. They will get wet and heavy and won't keep you warm
ndellar Nov 2014 11:52am, 8 Nov 2014 3,026 posts	ndellar I'd go for shorts, long leggings will just get soggy. I was timekeeper at Leamington parkrun this morning, it is very very wet. They've changed the course a little to avoid the path where I guy broke his leg last year, it goes parallel along the grass near the finish straight but this means a nasty turn in to the ditch. Be careful out there!
SPR Nov 2014 11:56am, 8 Nov 2014 19,709 posts	SPR Didn't know someone got injured that bad last year! Leamington has a few paths with roots, very easy to do an ankle there.
ndellar Nov 2014 12:07pm, 8 Nov 2014 3,027 posts	ndellar Yes, guy from Stafford Harriers, fairly slow one of my clubmates was behind him and heard a crack, saw him fall we found out after what happened. One of those things he probably has a weakness there but with the roots it can happen. Apparently the ladies course has been shortened, we only do the aeroplane field once rather than twice. It always comes up as a very long 6k on the garmin, can only think they have addressed the complaints. Frankly the longer it is the better chance Ive got of coming through and overtaking in the later stages!
SPR Nov 2014 12:50pm, 8 Nov 2014 19,710 posts	SPR Complaints about distance? THIS. IS. XC!!! lol
Mave Nov 2014 3:26pm, 8 Nov 2014 1,821 posts	Mave Thanks for the advice!