Mecsek Cup

This was an interesting weekend. I felt really awful the couple of days before it, so I was not expecting any great results. I prepared some geocaching details as well, just in case we have time to do them, although it was unlikely. It took us about 3 hours to get there and I left for the Start very slowly, dodging hundreds of toads that were doing their annual migration to the water's edge to lay their eggs. Unfortunately the village drained the pond, so they were all looking very lost around a dry lake.

I got to the Start rather early and managed to warm up properly. I don't know whether it was that, or the nice and early breakfast or the sudden drop in temperature, but I actually felt a lot better and was able to run more of it and faster than I expected. I had a small accident when a log collapsed under me, resulting in me running off in the wrong direction (check out the pointless loop en route to control no. 4!), but finally I was second and only 42 seconds down on the lady in first position.

On day two I felt a lot more sluggish than on Day 1 and felt as if I was crawling round, but this time I made no mistakes and managed to win overall, which was very pleasing. There were 6 of us in W60, so I even got some ranking points, which is an added bonus.

Now for next weekend's Long Distance Champs, where my course is 4.1km long with 185 metres of climb. Ouch!!