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Tortoise-O v Hare-O (or no-Hair-O in my…

I know it was along time ago, but having just competed in the AIRE promoted Dales Weekend, where I managed a combined 12th place over the two days in M45L, my mind wandered back to the MDOC Twin Peak weekend in the Lakes back in June. Now there I managed…
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to snatch the combined title in this class (much to my surprise!) with a 4th and a 3rd on the two days.For whatever reason, I appear to be getting slower through the terrain. But generally, Im managing to keep it quite accurate. This steady away approach really seemed to work in the Lakes, with most people running much faster than I was, but making big, big mistakes.Moving on to the Scottish 6 Days, I based my strategy on the Twin Peak result - steady away - keep it accurate. Except most people were keeping it accurate at twice my speed!…

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