Another hot evening. They were going mental with disclaimers and advice about how to keep cool and hydrated. Last week it seems some people ended up in a bad way and had to be recovered in an ambulance. That's bad news.
The small cuddly outline of Richard greeted us at Nyon station and then Victoria appeared. Tenke was talking about throwing in the towel, but I talked her into keeping going. The loo was full in the train so I was still in work clothing and had to change in the car, luckly Richard suggested Tenke did go in front to save any blushes should the need to change in the car came up.
On the motor way there was 4 car shunt at the exit we needed to take which held us up for ages. Richard asked at one point why the bloke in the car next to us was waving and grinning at him. Turns out it was James (the other Tenke's Boys team member) who was there with his whole family who had come all the way from Scotland to cheer him on.
We got there just in time and then there was 10 mins delay to let everyone arrive. Loo Qs were long.
One highlight of the evening was Richard trying (and failing) to be added to Tenke's Boys. They were having none of it.
Jason was also there in the Administration zone trying very hard to remember his name, my dossard is in H for Hollinger, ah no sorry my name is Borgen it will be under B, finally they found it in V for Von Borgen. What sort of runner forgets his name - have you had enough water?
Hardly had done 2 laps of the track when it was time to shuffle down to the start. I had forgotten how tight this one got after the 1st km when we hit the woods and I was badly placed at the start and could not get to the right speed - went through a downhill 1st km in 4:16 which was annoying. The ground was chewed up by dangerous cows and there was a cow pat slalom - through the fields was hard work and ankle destroying stuff. I found the up hills tough but was good on the downhill bits making up some speed.
In the woods it was too narrow to overtake. Although I did sneak past a few when the woods cleared to the side.
The nicest bit was where there was fresh wood chip down on the ground, lovely springy feel and that lifted me a bit.
The last drag along the bottom field before the climb home took forever, just watching the guys ahead slog up the hill made me feel even more exhausted. Dug deep and held on. At the top - more hill a turn and then suddenly that's it 50m of running track and it is all over.
39:29 on the garmin and 39:43 - the bad placement at the start cost me some 15 seconds which were expensive as they contributed to the down fall of Tenke's Boys to second place in the mixed team event.
As usual Tenke won the ladies and James was in 2 mins before me. Jason and Naly had a brilliant sprint finish which Jason won by 0.4 seconds!
Great to meet James' family and get the old sausage meal and beer thing going again.
Garmin
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