After the men’s record having an upgrade last year, it was time for the ladies this time around, with Jasmin improving Angela Mudge’s Jura record by 1min50sec, to a new best of 3:38:43.
Weather was actually quite good, cooler than the last couple of years, although the ground was in general wetter. Some clag at the start of the day meant that we went slightly off course after CP1 losing about 3-4min. This meant we lost touch with the leading group (well leading if you exclude Finlay Wild who was running his own race) and lost some places, however by CP3 we had, together with Mark Harris, regained our position. I would like to report that Mark and myself paced Jasmin around but really she was flying and it was mainly a case of trying to hang on to her. It didn’t help that I was descending like a wet towel, which on Jura is not very helpful. Eventually Mark and I ended up taking a suboptimal line off the 3rd Pap and Jasmin got away. She finished 6th with me trotting in a couple of minutes later in 7th. Tom Middlemiss was third Carnethy home, missing the 4hrs mark but not by much. This meant that due to a change in the team competition rules Carnethy won first team (with the new rules top 3 finishers of which at least one needs to be a ladies are counters). Joanne Anderson was, I think, 2nd vet 40 lady and Lisa Gamble was also well placed in the ladies race. Numerous other Carnethies partook, but I would probably miss some if I attempted to list them all. Results
Konrad Rawlik
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