So the LAMM comes around again. This time the location is Ben Cruachan. Not so far to travel. After some last minute arranging I arrive at he event center and meet up with DW. He has been up for a couple of days. We register and settle down for the night.
Saturday morning brings midges and the usual bus ride. We are soon off running and all goes well for a while. After control 2 I begin to find it hard to breathe deeply and my chest hurts. A result of the fall the week before on Martins BG. Our route choices are OK, I think, although we do have a dodgy descent. We later decide another line would have been better.
The last couple of hours are a real struggle for me and I cannot run the last 3k or so down the track. Very disappointing and I realise that tomorrow may be too much for me. The evening starts off midgey but a breeze allows us enough time to cook etc before they return. Thank you DW for looking after me as I found it hard move about.
After an uncomfortable night the final decision not to start day 2 is an easy one and we opt to walk out. This is still not easy for me but after a couple of hours we are back at the event center eating Wilfs veg chilli at 10am. Very odd!
In many way this was still a good weekend. Despite my injury we were only 1hr 7mins behind the leaders and in the chasing start. We will never know how things would have been if I was fully fit but I can still take some positives from the weekend.
Just getting a bit fed up with injuries at the moment. Yesterday I hurt my back getting something out of the fridge. Have not run since the LAMM and need to get out.
Russell
No comments:
Post a Comment