Fantastic bright, still sunny day. Fabulous colours in the trees but cold in the woods, about 2 degrees C, frosty and even icy in places. Still, the start was up by the visitor centre in bright sunshine which felt pretty warm.
As it is the 11 November today, the race started at 11.02 following
a very well observed two minute silence.
At the gun the race went uphill on a tarmac forest road for the
first 3km, and not a gentle ‘Leeds Road’ type hill, but quite testing. After
that though it levelled out, then descending quickly on forest paths (rocky and
a bit wet and slippery in places), before hitting ‘undulating’ compacted trails
for the last 1.5/2km.
Emma’s target was to break the hour. She finished in 54 minutes dead on my watch. Awesome!!
Day 72. 379 miles now run, 293 miles to go. That was also
race number 51 of 2012!
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