Cross Country – Rd 1

Eeeeeek, a personal worse for the Jells Park XC course

Thought I had actually run my best time for the course, turned out to be my worst by about 27 seconds. Funnily enough though I had a great day and am not out on a ledge about it, Round 1 for me has traditionally been a poor one for various reasons. It probably didn’t help that I did 10km as a run leader this morning, remind me to check my diary next time I agree to fill in

Jells Relays are always a good day out and the weather was perfect, despite some threatening black clouds and it was great to catch up with mates before getting down to business. I had already paid for my uniform so I went though the box looking for a small singlet, found one, only problem is the uniform supplier must have though they were outfitting a rugby team My singlet is HUGE, it covers my shorts and falls off my shoulders! I am going to have to take it out to mums and ask her to run it in up the sides, not much that can be done about the length so I will have to become a tucker, either that or I lose a Kg or two, do some more sit ups and wear a crop top.

I was running in the open team with a 14 and a 16 year old girl, both of whom ran bloody well considering that hadn’t done 6km in XC before. My run was alright, I ran pretty even splits for both laps but it’s not really anything to blog home about, 28:42 in the end, I decided to just get around and not flog myself too much. Partway though the first lap there was a junior girl struggling up a hill, wheezing a bit, so I slowed briefly to make sure she was going to be OK, poor munchkin had given it her all I think. Oh, even though it wasn’t my best performance I did manage to get back 3 places (I was the second runner), so not an altogether bad day on the park.

There was a good atmosphere amongst my new club mates, so in spite of the giant singlet I think I am going to be pretty happy there. Next round is a 4′ker in Warrigal on a pretty challenging course, looking forward to it, with a few more weeks training in the legs I should be in better shape and hopefully by then the last of the Trailwalker niggles will have settled, I was getting some twinges in the backs of my knees out there today, ITB fine though.

Good to see some fab runs from some mates out there today, Jo got my measure for round 1 pipping me by about 20 seconds Corrie absolutely kicked butt with 26 something and lived up to my prediction that I will be looking at her back for the rest of the season and of course all the speedy pants boys I know where speedy as usual. A couple of them ran around 20 minutes and were warmed down and sipping hot chocolate by the time I got around, my male club mates easily won their division!

So there you go, not such a great day out running for me but all up an enjoyable afternoon. Oh yeah, remind me again, no 10km warm ups in future.