Spikes

One of Cecile's colleagues emailed with the details of this race, 2éme cross d'Ambérieu en Bugey (11/11/11)  and invited me to attend. I was very scared when I arrived, this was a proper athletics thing and incidentally free to enter.

There where maybe 50 people (certainly no more, and may have been less) all had spikes on except for about 3 people. All had singlets on with club motifs except for 2 etc. etc.

At the gun, I went off and thought I would go slow, but of course I got fed up quick (after about 10 paces) of the slow people. Ping the watch told me that the first KM was done in 3:50 at that point I thought "shit no way". So I slowed down a  tad and that slowing continued to the end. I came in somewhere between 10th and 15th. The course was hummocky lots of bobbly grass (hate that) and some cinder.

Distance:	9.22 km
Time:	39:20
Avg Pace:	4:16 min/km

Split	Time	Distance	Avg Pace
Summary	39:20.1	9.22	4:15.8
1	3:50.0	1.00	3:50.0
2	4:06.2	1.00	4:06.2
3	4:08.2	1.00	4:08.2
4	4:15.7	1.00	4:15.7
5	4:18.3	1.00	4:18.3
6	4:27.9	1.00	4:27.9
7	4:23.9	1.00	4:23.9
8	4:28.0	1.00	4:28.0
9	4:25.6	1.00	4:25.6
10	:55.9	0.22	4:09.4