These last two weeks have flown by and that is no surprise considering I have been on half term and thankfully I didn't have loads of work to do, so I could also rest and relax for a bit. Leading up to this race I was a little nervous of how the course would go as it is known for being very hilly. Last year I was in the u17 age group (last years blog post here) and this year I was running in the seniors race so the course is longer. This week it was 4.9km to deal with but with about a million hills in it too !!! After my usual warm up, I did my last few drills and made my way to the start line. The gun went and I found myself in the mix of the race pretty instantly, the beginning of the course was relatively flat but it didn't last long before we started climbing and then soon after we were descending... up and down, up and down, we went. The course was made up by two laps, one 2km lap and another 3km lap. The second lap was certainly the hillier one, so it was key not to go off too quickly as I had visions of me pretty much crawling up the hills in the end if I did. The last lap of the course was painful, my legs were full of lactic and felt heavy, I was desperately just trying to hang onto my position but this was tough. The final 500m was hard because it was all pretty much down hill but following some killer hills, it was hard to let your legs go and have a final strong finish. There was several of us all close to each other and we kept over taking each other but then the last one hundred metres we all gave our final sprint... and this was painful !! I over took one girl, but then got overtaken by another and I crossed the line in 16th senior women and 8th u20. I crossed the line and my initial feelings were of disappointment however after having some time to reflect and look back, yes it wasn't my best race but it wasn't horrendous. I think my good result in the previous Kent league is what made me feel initially disappointed but I had to look at the bigger picture and there were more people in the race this weekend. It feels great to be solidly into cross country season now and although the conditions haven't exactly been tough yet, I am really enjoying it. I am now back at school, hence the slight delay in post but I hope you all had a good week. I have had some very exciting news in the week because I came an auntie to the beautiful Florence and I can't wait to spend lots of time with her in the future.
Love G x
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11/11/2017 01:57:35 pm
Physical fitness is very important in our life. Exercise like running and jogging makes our bones strong and also releases our mentally stress. I also running with my friends every morning for my physical fitness.
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