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Graham Gristwood - FRA Relays and CompassSport Cup Final

FRA Relays and CompassSport Cup Final

This weekend I headed back to the UK for my fell running clubs national relays champs, and my orienteering clubs national team competition champs. I flew in on friday, and they lost my bag.Saturday was the Fell Running Association Relay champs, and I was running for my club Mercia. With…
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a full team, we were favourites to take the title after 2nd place 3 times in the last 4 years. Unfortunately we lost our 2 top runners to work and a broken arm. We still had a good team though, and finished 5th, but we were never in the hunt for a medal. Maybe next year.I ran a pretty good leg, running the pairs navigation leg. I was stronger than my partner, so I was pretty comfortable all the way, and doing the navigation, which was made more interesting by the low visibility.Results here. Event website here. Navigation leg map…

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