Race report by Jon:
Delamere Forest Wildwood Trails 10k Canicross this morning.
It’s always great to get out on a proper organised event, albeit that this one had the canicross tagged onto a standard trail run event.
It’s often the case that non-specific canicross events can be a little lacking with the dogs specific things and so it was here.
The canicross runners were set off 3 minutes before the main run field in a mass dog start in a fairly narrow start funnel – not ideal and there were a couple of issues with reactive dogs, although not mine for a change!
Just 20m from the start I tangled with a spectator who was on the run line. Another 200m on, Hope stopped for a poo. That definitely wasn’t an ideal start. Still, it improved from there onwards.
The course was gorgeous. There’s one big hill on the course and you hit it straight from the start. After that it was a gentle downhill and generally rolling terrain – lots of fun to run with dogs.
The fast lads from the 10k starting after us soon started thumping past us, which spooked Hope badly until she got used to it.
I didn’t bother getting my finish time, but I could describe it as disappointingly slow, but not a complete embarrassment. 😂
Overall, a really nice morning out and I’d do it again. Even the sun came out. 🦮🦮🏃
