Saturday:
Saturday was on the sand dunes near Haverigg in the south lakes. These are grassy as well as sandy (unlike the wooded dunes found in Scotland) so an added challenge was actually running up some of the sandier slopes. With 3 separate exercises to get through (a time trial, simplification exercise and attack points exercise) the pace was steady (more so for some than others) yet purposeful. For me the time trial was a nightmare of a first exercise on a strange scale (1:7500 with 2.5m contours). After that I began to get used to the rapidly changing terrain (flat to dunes and back again) so the other two exercises went well.
The 'serious' exercises were followed by a clock relay (see attached map) in pairs with a novelty item. Each runner goes out to the control, picks up the item and moves it round a control before coming back to tig their partner who does the same. There was some bending/changing of the rules whereby each runner simply drops the item a bit further round a rough circle in view of the next runner.
Sunday:
Sunday incorporated the BL regional event at High Pike which for me meant my final run on JM5Medium. The course was open and fast (depending on how well the climb in the first half of the course was tackled) as the second half was entirely downhill running. 49 minutes for 6.2km wasn't bad but a few small errors could have been cut out to get closer to the winner's time (around 44 minutes).
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