SO Sussex Sprint Series – Goffs Park, Crawley
This was a genuine sprint race. Two “circuits” round parkland of only 1.3km each with about a dozen controls so some were only seconds apart, but complex enough terrain to be interesting and plenty of chances to go wrong.
I was much faster on the second part than the first, where I ran straight past an obvious control and lost time looking forwards for it. The moment I looked back, it was obvious. I was also not sure how I would feel physically but was basically OK, if a little “wobbly” from this virus or whatever it was., so I was a little cautious. On the second circuit I knew what to expect and just ran – my heart rate hit 186 at one point – the highest my Garmin has monitored.
The turn-out was huge (over 120) and there were some literally world class runners, so being 56th was not quite as bad as it sounds. Had I not lost about 2 minutes on the first “circuit” I would have been much higher – we were all separated by seconds.
A lovely event – thoroughly good fun and a great start to the new “season”.