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Pilgrims Cross fell race 2011

Pilgrims cross fell race was my first race of my twelve enjoyable months so far as a fellrunner, so question is would i get a better result this time?

Six runners turned up on a wet and windy night representing lostock ac.so after registration a short walk up the lane to the start.this is allways a nerveous time for me and i was thinking the thirty five mile bike ride the day before could affect my performance.

After we had all shared our excuses and injurys which could affect performances we set off as a group we where all quite near the front and Adrian set off like he meant business and was soon away. I didnt see mark the bullet start, but could see Mark S just infront so i thought push on, at what felt like a fast pace and see how it goes.

The start is tricky as your running over slippy york stone flags and cobbles,you soon hit open moorland and the conditions were wet and boggy nice just how we like it. I was heading in the direction of peel tower and it felt just as hard as last year if not harder as i was trying to catch Adrian who seemed to be having a good run, then Tom passed me so i tryied to keep up with both them, so i just hung on hoping that they might tire.

Tom went over on his ankle but was able to limp on, so after checking he was ok i pushed on looking to steal our fell captains crown, however (here come the excuses) my legs are really starting to feel it now and could see Adrian just starting to pull away on the last climb so time to dig deep. A fast desent over those slippy flag stones again and down the lane to the finish.
I didnt catch adrian but i did have a good fast run and managed to beat last year time by nine mins.

Mike

49 Adrian Hope 00:50:17
55 Michael Ernill 00:51:17
67 Tom Smith 00:53:18
76 Mark Checkley 00:54:44
88 Mark Shuttleworth 00:57:17
111 Sam Ernill 01:02:28
130 Vikki Hughes 01:11:38

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