I'll be trying hard, but I'm coming back from a badly rolled ankle. Feeling very under-trained! I've even signed up for the relay this year (why? - I NEVER do relays!).
I remember Beaudesert from 1981. A couple of very long hilly runs (both full length back then). I used to put old maps up on Twitter but closed my account. The relay that year was in Bishop Wood near Market Drayton an area that has fallen off the fixture lists.
I used to enjoy relays - At JK79 I had no team, and got "signed" by ASUB of Brussels. Perhaps I should not have bothered - in those days that Haldon (Exeter) map was titled Bramble Brook and did what it said on the tin. Nice scribed Harvey map BTW. That year there was only one individual race.
I'm just back from a midweek SYO event at Redmires and by complete coincidence was parked next to a couple who are helping to organise the JK relays on Stanton Moor. They were a bit worried about where to park 190+ camper vans...
I'm feeling particularly under-prepared. Just looked at Routegadget from 2019... complex, complex, complex... lots of scope for errors. Fingers crossed...
Spent an hour or so with the last few events from sprint map last night. Agree, more complex than most urban terrain. more worried about the 7 year old who has declared “today I’m running on my own…” having never done an urban event solo before
she’ll be fine in the forest though. Much more straight forward!
Ah, grim! Any little mistakes make you plummet through the field on a sprint.
I had a minor (or so I thought...) mistake on #10 (course 7) and dropped from 25th to 47th...oops. Clawed my way back up a bit by the end, but the damage was done.
Mind you, almost everyone seemed to have a wobble somewhere on their course.
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