Not wanting to lose my mountain legs-I needed to keep getting in hill workouts. Now, when I was in grad school, I lived close to the 1980 Olympic cycling course at Krylatskoe. It's hilly as .....yup, longer runs about every9-10 days all summer over 3 months got me my Equinox Marathon PR in Fairbanks. I never lost a step when i trained on this course. Well the following weekend I did the 10.8k Adidas trail race Run High on this course (mostly off the pavement)as a workout. I was still not 100% after Moscow Trail which was expected, but I was not planning to go eyeballs out 7 days later. I was just out for the hill of it.
What I was holding back for so I could be recovered for was the White Sand 10k trail in Stupino on the 8th only 6 days later. I was going to try and podium at that one. It was supposed to be a kind of tough trail on mud and sand. Well that one was complete epic fail for half of the entire first wave (the faster runners). Over 20 of us got sent off course and ran 13k. The Fcuk Up occurred just about 4k in and I was solidly in 2nd with 3rd backing off. There was no one behind her at all. The 2 of us would have easily taken the top 3. It turned out to be a completely wasted weekend which when already running on a short season and not getting any younger one cannot afford to just blow off a race weekend like that. We were mad as hell and rightfully so. After a few days the RD did admit fault, but still when there are a half a dozen races every weekend and you pick the one with the fcuk up..... Needless to say, I'll go elsewhere next yr.
What I was holding back for so I could be recovered for was the White Sand 10k trail in Stupino on the 8th only 6 days later. I was going to try and podium at that one. It was supposed to be a kind of tough trail on mud and sand. Well that one was complete epic fail for half of the entire first wave (the faster runners). Over 20 of us got sent off course and ran 13k. The Fcuk Up occurred just about 4k in and I was solidly in 2nd with 3rd backing off. There was no one behind her at all. The 2 of us would have easily taken the top 3. It turned out to be a completely wasted weekend which when already running on a short season and not getting any younger one cannot afford to just blow off a race weekend like that. We were mad as hell and rightfully so. After a few days the RD did admit fault, but still when there are a half a dozen races every weekend and you pick the one with the fcuk up..... Needless to say, I'll go elsewhere next yr.
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