I was really pleased with today's race. Last week was not bad for me as cross-country goes, but it was flat and about as tailored to my strengths as I could hope for. Today's race was the London Championships and was run at Parliament Hill. So it was hilly. Home turf. But no home advantage for me.
I paced it pretty well I think, though I could still have done with holding back a bit more early on. During the first of the four laps I moved through from about 15th to 7th and I kept that position to the end. By the beginning of the fourth lap, I was surrounded by a bunch of three who had come up on me, and each of whom came past me at some point. But I found enough over the last kilometer to finish ahead of them all. In fact, I finished just behind Ryan - though quite what he was doing at the end I don't know.
I'm stronger than I used to be on the up hills, but it's still my weakness in these races. My downhill running is good now and was the reason I could pull out a gap at the end.
And we won the team race!... with me in the scoring four. Tidy.
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