CXross Country - It Hurts

So with the triathlon season being over (at least in this hemisphere) it's time to put string up the spikes and hit the cross country scene. The last two weekends has been the east district relay champs and an east district league event.

The two key things of cross country- no matter what the weather is one must only wear shorts and vest; any other attire will be met with chuckles and murmurs of you being soft. That and when the gun goes you run as fast as you can, too hard, but everyone does it so you go along with it, the winner is the one who slows down the most and makes it round without their legs collapsing charging down the hills; all in shorts and a vest.

However it's all good fun and it gives me something to focus on until the temperature reaches an acceptable weather to dawn a tri suit again.

20th and a Crash

Well that's another race season over with and as always there were some highs (9^th at Euro Champs) and there were lows. Sadly there was no spectacular end of my season as I finished 20^th at World Champs which was disappointed and followed it up with crashing out of National Champs as my front tyre blew half way round a corner. On the plus side it meant my season end rest began 40minutes sooner than anticipated. The negative side was spending the next several days limping around.

So after a week of lazing around the house doing as little as possible reflecting on what I have learnt and coming up with master plans on how I am going to get better it's now time to get back on with the job. There's one thing I know for sure: Its dam difficult to get to the top.