The XC thread

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GeneHunt59 Jan 2020 8:22pm, 4 Jan 2020 1,333 posts	GeneHunt59 Im in training for a HM and was hoping for some advice. A couple of my Sunday runs will be XC races of about 5 miles. I've guesstimated a muddy/slippery, hilly, with streams 5 miles XC course as roughly equivalent to an 8 mile road run on the flat? Would appreciate your thoughts if anyone has any. TIA.
Gobi Jan 2020 8:32pm, 4 Jan 2020 68,308 posts	Gobi So I disagree with that logic. All you are doing is making a 5 mile run harder Spr - had to be done
Chrisity Jan 2020 8:50pm, 4 Jan 2020 17,001 posts	Chrisity Shipley Park for the Notts/Derbyshire XC. Course was the same as the North Midlands last month, that is mud and about 200m of climbing on the undulations. Happy to come away with a Silver V65 medal, the best i could have hoped for. The gold winner was a good 4 minutes ahead of me, but he ranks highly in the country never mind Notts. To give an idea of the conditions, i was 20% slower than my last 10k.
larkim Jan 2020 10:34pm, 4 Jan 2020 9,870 posts	larkim XC is very different to a road run. Different muscles in use (or at least in differing proportions). Constantly varying effort levels. Lots of old timers swear by them as good workouts of course.
Chrisity Jan 2020 10:53pm, 4 Jan 2020 17,005 posts	Chrisity Normally the difference isn't quite so big larkim, but i agree with what you said. Best winter training for me, all the effort of speed work without the knees screaming.
sLickster Jan 2020 3:15pm, 5 Jan 2020 1,919 posts	sLickster SPR - how did you miss him, I got at least three photos of the 16th placed Warwickshire Masters runner... m.facebook.com
SPR Jan 2020 3:29pm, 5 Jan 2020 29,823 posts	SPR Lol Slickster, it's down to BRAT tunnel vision.
Gobi Jan 2020 8:13pm, 5 Jan 2020 68,309 posts	Gobi hahahahahaha :¬)
Gobi Jan 2020 8:15pm, 5 Jan 2020 68,310 posts	Gobi Why were you not running sLickster ?
sLickster Jan 2020 9:06pm, 5 Jan 2020 1,920 posts	sLickster Well, I’m not from Warwickshire or Worcestershire....but I’ve been doing sprinting for the past three years...Midlands (Masters) 100m/200m champ two years running.