That’s a decent pace on tired legs 
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You can say that again! Especially as he’s proper old too! 
On a more serious note, that’s really cracking stuff Doony.
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You can FRO 
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Good work! 
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That is a cracking time for the five miler. Well done.
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Paging @Chriswim
The moors race is a tough one, I think the benchmark was something ridiculous like sub 90!
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Well done that man 
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Very nice racing there @Doonhamer, congratulations
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Dave Scott has moved to the ME? 
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Crazy good 
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sedburgh hills is the toughest both steepness & on claggy day is epic
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Thanks, working for the first few but I’ll try and remember those last 3
That 27th August race is only 2.6km, assume it’s purely up and down Roseberry
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Yup, any way you can get up and down from the car park and not break your ankles.
Think I managed 16 minutes once but haven’t done it for years, it’s pretty sketchy and some bits are mostly sliding on your arse
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Come on fruity, need to know which snake oil you’re using for that bike split 
And if there’s any winnings 
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haha no just a homespun affair today. The 6th and I think final race in the Ramadan series (there’s a 7th run event on Monday evening, but it’s just a social + a picnic & won’t count towards the points)
Bit of a weird one. The cycling track is about 5km inland, so the race format was sea swim, neutralised T1 to drive to the track, and then a timed bike run.
Had a good swim apart from sighting the wrong bit of shore on the way back & swimming into the oncoming folk 
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Then bike felt good, there was hardly any wind today which is unusual, I just tried to hold 240W although Garmin tells me didn’t quite manage it. But 41kmh was a surprise, first time ever under 30 minutes for 20km 
Unfortunately I forgot to press the lap button on my watch in T2 and was half a kilometer down the road before I realised. The race instructions were “turn when your watch hits 2.5km” but I just had to guess, there was noone with me at that point. In the end I think I did 5.4km & was struggling a little in the heat too. As a Ramadan race in daylight hours, no fluids were allowed & my mouth got super dry.
Anyway, overall time looks to be around 1h03 but of course this doesn’t include a T1 & got a nice rest between swim and bike, so can’t really claim it.
It has been a really fun race series, would be great to have something like it in UK 
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This is next Saturday and as luck would (hopefully) have it the start place is where I’ve been doing lots of my runs recently, so fairly sure I know which way it will head off and a decent knowledge of some of that area. I say that very nervously though in case I cock it up!
Apparently you get a trig point card about 10 minutes before with the grid references, then it’s map and compass time to see where you are going to hit the points in order, a bit like orienteering. Start is staggered over about 90 minutes.
I’ve also got the map already as you aren’t supposed to use Satnav, not sure about a digital copy of the map.
No idea how it will pan out but I should at least know some bits of it if I have to bail out.
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Jesus, I’d still be out there a week later 
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You’re supposed to stick to public paths\tracks etc. rather than direct over the moors which should help a bit as I’m expecting it to be some of the bigger or more popular ones. There’s several manned checkpoints for food so they’d need to be partly accessible even to mountain rescue.
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Broken after today’s race, best described as a smash fest on a race track in brutal conditions. Came away with a few medals in the 50s cat.
Garmin said it was a toughie
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