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Box Hill Fell Race this morning. Not done this one for a few years.

Also had a good XC outing yesterday, above average. Was at an equestrian centre so included a thigh deep water feature in freezing cold water. Three times.

33rd in the Herts County Champs yesterday, very happy with my run, course was ideal for me, lots of climbing.

Nowhere near as fast as the man @PhilPub though.

Still got Southerns, Nationals, and two League rounds left!

2016 started off pretty shit, but did a lot of miles through the year, over a thousand for the third year running.

Done some new events (Calderdale, Greensands, Hodgson Bros, Cardington) as well as some old favourites and (so far) a full XC season! Running a lot more consistently, and a lot less solo and getting a lot quicker as a result.

2017 brings a few months of marathon prep, then some fell running and just maybe some long stuff for a laugh. I'd like to go 18 for 5K, 37 for 10, 1:22 for half and anything sub three for the marathon (aiming for GFA for 2018 London).

It's nice to be running decently again for one thing.

I saw a post run comment from one of our runners that it was a different course than we'd ran earlier in the season and instantly felt guilty.

And yeah that's a fast field.

I only managed to listen to it because it was on the BBC iPlayer for a week or two after Annie Mac did a full listening session.

I'm hearing they changed up the course @PhilPub...

Chance The Rapper - Coloring Book
Kanye - The Life of Pablo

Favourite has to be Lemonade by Beyonce though.

Very good point about the steps. I was taking places up and down but losing out a bit on the flat bits, as usual.

Start in a field, which was bone dry back in October, then a hill with a mostly sandy surface up and down. We did two laps of that then back along a muddy woodline and through the fields to finish.

I could have done with road shoes frankly, was so dry. Did it in X-Talons though because it was so dry and there was a section where running down the middle of the tarmac path was faster than the grass verges. Definitely worth recceing the descent, it's hairy for a cross country course but useful for closing gaps if you can run it.

It's one of my favourites, had much better results there than on other courses.

This was our course: https://www.strava.com/activities/745482574

Horspath is a great XC course. Attack the hill!

Did someone say undulating? Did the Cardington Cracker at the weekend, after missing it last year.

Had a decent race, lost about 10 places after a big fall descending Caer Caradoc and landing in some rocks. Still got a dead leg and a load of scrapes now.

Had XC on Saturday too, that was a bit less interesting.

290s look like nice trail race shoes. Loving my 212 Talons even though it's not wet enough yet.

Strava is the best tracker I've used. Being able to see what your training partners/rivals are doing is motivational.

Southville RC. Ran with them when I was Bris based, lovely club.

Used to run in Xodus, too heavy for racing in. Good comfy all round trail shoe though.

I also had my first XC round today. I'm getting faster!

Turned up with X Talons and a choice of track spikes or 18mm spikes. Was rock solid and I ended up in the X-Talons, could have done with road shoes frankly.

I'm out, one more opportunity through the club ballot...

I didn't do parkrun this weekend as I was busy running up and falling down some rather large hills in the Lake District.

Oh God that is pretty harsh.

90 miles would take me to somewhere near home. Maybe another year when I've run a bit further.

That looks rather a lot of fun.

Tollefson jumps past Miller who appears to be suffering, with both David Laney and Dominguez within 15 minutes of him. Could be losing places after having lead for so long.

This kinda works, found Nick Reed:

http://utmb.livetrail.net/coureur.php

Appears to be at 80km?

Website is poor, and footage is focused mainly on Miller. Will have a check.