Marl Pitts Xcountry – Race report by Checkers:
Fantastic weather today very rainy and windy I think 🤔 too much looking at where my feet were going 😮. Always look forward to this one it’s a real mud fest😃 Finished work Friday morning with no aches or pains.😃 Had an easy swim at dinner time to relax my back even more🤔. Then this morning my back was really aching?😒 Had to roll around on the floor stretching 🥺 as I couldn’t even bend down 😒 . Even struggled cycling to volunteer at park run. Still aching at dinner time 🙁 dosed up on Ibuprofen and paracetamol 😵💫
I arrived in time to see the ladies on their first lap.Just Karen for Lostock and Mary who was waring the wrong colours, whilst in competition? Although she is entitled to 🙂
Looking and watching the younger runners, I quite quickly became aware of what we were in for😮 As several runners were covered in mud.,and slipping and sliding in the mud.
Our turn now ? Nearly missed the start as I was still dithering about🤐 Four of us blokes lined up together on the start line for Lostock. Me, Greg, James and Andy. The men do a shortish out lap around the playing fields, which is surprisingly harder than it looks as the mud is well churned up. Then 3 what seems like very looong laps. All going uphill 😮 with a stream crossing over a very slippery bridge, then an all fours climb up up a short slippery steep bank. Then the really tough bit through what can be waist deep thick mud, if you get it wrong 😮 followed, by the final climb up🥺 What goes has to go down??🤐 The decent looked treacherous😮 I followed another runner, he suggested slaloming🙂 this worked well😊. The only trouble was? That we had to this two more times??😮 . When I went through the deep mud, another runner had lost his shoe, he was swearing like a trooper, in his frustration 😊 this made me smile 😊. Though I had a bit to curse about***? From the spectators cheering the faster runners doing their second lap I had still not completed, my first🙁grrr. The good thing was that I could feel no pain 😊 apart from dealing with the terrain, which is why we do it, it’s the pain we all enjoy 😊 I could feel my self getting stronger, I regained a few places back as the other runners wilted😊 in the mud. What was good that all four of us got round without incident😊 no muddy arses 😊and no face plants😊 yippee. No idea of my time. Don’t care just great fun 😊
