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Dec 2012
6:07pm, 7 Dec 2012
32,202 posts
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mxhornet
Oh well that didn't work (twice) I'm sure if you google it you'll soon find them.
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Dec 2012
8:01pm, 7 Dec 2012
32,203 posts
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mxhornet
A local has just described the 10k course as 4 laps of mostly grass with a nasty hill, and 2 easier hills.
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Dec 2012
8:06pm, 7 Dec 2012
104 posts
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oi you
If they've had the same weather as here, it's going to be pretty muddy. Fortunately I'm in the first event of the day - before it gets too churned up.
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Dec 2012
8:11pm, 7 Dec 2012
32,205 posts
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mxhornet
Me too 
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Dec 2012
8:24pm, 7 Dec 2012
105 posts
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oi you
Just checked last year's results M50-60 field was around 110 runners, quickest 37:15, slowest 1:06:56 - so I might not be last
Just got to find the place first!
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Dec 2012
9:22pm, 7 Dec 2012
1,868 posts
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ndellar
Leek in the North Staffs League tomorrow, expect to see snow, if not on the ground at least on the hills in the distance! Brrrrr
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Dec 2012
4:20pm, 8 Dec 2012
95 posts
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Callum Bampton
Wow! I wasn't anticipating the Southerns to be so muddy but it was!
Fell over right at the start, losing a couple of seconds but it was the time taken for me to get back into the top 20 which was the real discount on such a narrow course! I was dead last and took me 4 minutes just to get into the top 15...
Worked my way through well and was composed - I was 14th my lap 2.
A little surge took me to 12th and I was with a Sussex athlete 'Stephen Ferroni" who was with me right from the start and a string of Kent athletes who were working through like Kenyans.
We saw the leaders about 30 seconds ahead of me - I realised that we were gaining on them!
He took us through to 10th and 9th, and I suddenly hit a wall.. all this catching caught up on me.
A downhill separated everyone out, and a sudden uphill got me to stride out on the crest. I was 8th.
Stephen being a sub 16:30 athlete on the 5k and a 4:15 1500m runner had the speed and endurance on me so got me at the end, and was just 30 seconds behind the eventual winner.
Left with mixed emotions; I wanted top 10 and I got 9th in a seriously classy field. Perhaps if I hadn't have fell over I could've gained another 2/3 positions. So for now, I still stay under the limelight.
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Dec 2012
4:21pm, 8 Dec 2012
32,209 posts
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mxhornet
That was a whole lot muddier than I expected.
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Dec 2012
4:37pm, 8 Dec 2012
96 posts
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Callum Bampton
How did you get on mx?
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Dec 2012
4:38pm, 8 Dec 2012
17,729 posts
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SPR
Nice one CB
Race well everyone else.
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