Woodlands 5 and a Bit
What a great little race. Very small race over a pretty challenging two-lap offroad route. It seemed if you're not a Reading Road Runners or Sandhurst runner, you're an outcast
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Had a good run and definitely feel the long warm up helped me here. Started off a little too fast in retrospect as I finished the first lap in 3 but with 3 guys on my tail. They took me on the second steep hill on this course and I couldn't catch them.
Still happy that I managed to average less than 4min/km on this hilly offroad route too.
Oh yes and it was a very warm evening. My vest was drenched when I finished.
By my calculations, I finished 6th overall. Not bad.
One change I made from previous races is I did NOT carb up before the race. Instead I ate a large teaspoon of coconut oil and two handfuls of mixed nuts and raisins. I didn't feel like I was missing anything either. The more I experiment and train and live on low carbs, high fat and high protein, the more I think this is the way we're meant to live.