11km today and 60km for the week so far, 6 runs/8 days this month
Raced on the Sandown race circuit in the Men's Div 6 team for Western A's, running the final leg for our team. The team finished in 5th position out of 14 teams, which was fairly satisfying. It was a coolish day which was affected a little by the wind, but not too badly, especially compared to last year.
My experience was very ordinary, a very lonely run, the entire run I never ran alongside anyone for more than 2 steps, either passing runners or being past by the fast Div 1 & 2 guys. This made the race quite boring which I actually find most relays to be, I much prefer the straight up races or running the first leg of the relay, but as I was not the fastest I didn't get this option. My time was 10 seconds faster than last year, but last year's conditions were much worse so this really wasn't a PB, maybe by time, but that is all.
The only positive from the day was seeing the comaradrie in the Western A' men's teams, with all 9 of us being very aware of how each team are going throughout the race and then having non present runners ringing or texting for race updates. The next AV event is in 2 weeks, at Jells Park, the State XC Champs, hopefully we will be able to field 2 teams again, but again work commitments takes away one of our Div 4 runners and one of our U20s will race in his age group with the hope of National XC selection. But we hope we can get 9 guys together again.
With a party looming tonight I suspect that my long run may be reduce to a recovery day on the couch!!!
Edit: The AV ladders have been produced after Round 6,
Men Div 4: Doncaster 76, Sandringham 62, Western A's 54, Wendouree 51, so we actually moved up one position due to Wendouree finishing behind us, 14 teams
Men Div 6:Sandringham 62, Coburg 54, 6th Western A's 27 (moved up 1 spot), 19 teams
Wmn Div 2:we are in 9th/15 teams
Wmn Div 3:equal 14th & the third team in 15th/24 teams
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