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Nov 2014
9:08am, 8 Nov 2014
300 posts
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Funky Chicken
A real thread-killer  I feel like I might be to blame for asking the question in the first place!
Good luck everyone running today. I'm holding out for a position in the club's C team one of these days - it's a big club and more than 60 guys usually take part in Met League races. I need to be in the first 30 to score. Hopefully a bit speedier this year if my recent Sunday League performance wasn't just a day I got lucky.
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Nov 2014
9:22am, 8 Nov 2014
1,820 posts
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Mave
I'm thinking of doing my first ever x-c tomorrow. Any top tips?! I hated it at school, but love trail running now. Long leggings an error?
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Nov 2014
10:31am, 8 Nov 2014
2,929 posts
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clare1976
It's been raining most of this morning in Leamington so the mud fest is a certainty! At least the ladies go first, I dread to think what some of the course will be like by the men's 3rd lap!!
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Nov 2014
10:57am, 8 Nov 2014
19,708 posts
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SPR
Yeah, it looks like it's going to be a mudfest.
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Nov 2014
11:52am, 8 Nov 2014
203 posts
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MartinCunningham
'Long leggings an error?' in my view yes. They will get wet and heavy and won't keep you warm
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Nov 2014
11:52am, 8 Nov 2014
3,026 posts
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ndellar
I'd go for shorts, long leggings will just get soggy.
I was timekeeper at Leamington parkrun this morning, it is very very wet. They've changed the course a little to avoid the path where I guy broke his leg last year, it goes parallel along the grass near the finish straight but this means a nasty turn in to the ditch. Be careful out there!
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Nov 2014
11:56am, 8 Nov 2014
19,709 posts
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SPR
Didn't know someone got injured that bad last year!
Leamington has a few paths with roots, very easy to do an ankle there.
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Nov 2014
12:07pm, 8 Nov 2014
3,027 posts
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ndellar
Yes, guy from Stafford Harriers, fairly slow one of my clubmates was behind him and heard a crack, saw him fall we found out after what happened. One of those things he probably has a weakness there but with the roots it can happen.
Apparently the ladies course has been shortened, we only do the aeroplane field once rather than twice. It always comes up as a very long 6k on the garmin, can only think they have addressed the complaints. Frankly the longer it is the better chance Ive got of coming through and overtaking in the later stages!
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Nov 2014
12:50pm, 8 Nov 2014
19,710 posts
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SPR
Complaints about distance? THIS. IS. XC!!! lol
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Nov 2014
3:26pm, 8 Nov 2014
1,821 posts
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Mave
Thanks for the advice!
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