Notes
IMRA race with Aurelien - Glasnamullen and an anti-clockwise lap of Djouce. On the website it said 8.4km but found out the hard way that it was over 10km. All the climbing was pretty much at the start as we started on fire trails before hitting the mountain itself. Didn't feel great at the start and started conservatively enough. Once we hit the mountain I picked the pace up a bit and made good progress. I latched onto a couple of good climbers and passed a few people on the way up. The climb was all of 400m right at the start so was very hard work. Mix on running and hard walking on the way up. Felt ok at the top and after a few seconds to recover where I lost time on those ahead of me I started to run well again. My descending skills were not bad but definitely need work as a few passed me (4 or 5 max). The downhill sections were very technical and dangerous. We descended on rough ground (rocks), sleepers, boggy heather and finally fire trails. The soft heather was probably the worst as struggled to find a safe path through. Towards the end really put the foot down (last 1.5km) to pass all the guys who took me on the downhill. Passed them all and finished strongly for 29th place out of 172. Really happy with the run and was 118% of the winner which is my best yet although I think one or two good guys weren't there