I was warned! Apparently there lies a great deal of risk in doing your first trail race....you may quickly get addicted.
I knew there was a similar event to the one I did, but at Fanshawe Lake north of London. I checked it out as soon as I got home and to my delight discovered that it takes place in 2 weeks. But lo and behold...sold out!! Apparently they allow only 300 participants.
But I can definitely see more of this in my future. It surely is a whole different dynamic. Here are a few numbers form yesterdays event, many of which surprised me - - - a lot!
25---the race distance
924---entrants
175 ---non-finishers!!!!!
398---male finishers
526---female finishers!!!
239---finishers under 40 years of age
510---finishers over 40!!!
81---my overall finish position
116---finishers in the 50-59 age group
13---my age group position
I was very surprised by the demographics and by the competiveness. Specifically I do not reacall ever participating in an event that had more female competitors than male.
I also never recall finishing better overall (relatively speaking) than I did in my age group.
For whatever reason it seems that endurance trail running is for women and old men!
"Unbeing dead isn't being alive."---e.e. cummings
"Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed."---Boris Pasternak
I knew there was a similar event to the one I did, but at Fanshawe Lake north of London. I checked it out as soon as I got home and to my delight discovered that it takes place in 2 weeks. But lo and behold...sold out!! Apparently they allow only 300 participants.
But I can definitely see more of this in my future. It surely is a whole different dynamic. Here are a few numbers form yesterdays event, many of which surprised me - - - a lot!
25---the race distance
924---entrants
175 ---non-finishers!!!!!
398---male finishers
526---female finishers!!!
239---finishers under 40 years of age
510---finishers over 40!!!
81---my overall finish position
116---finishers in the 50-59 age group
13---my age group position
I was very surprised by the demographics and by the competiveness. Specifically I do not reacall ever participating in an event that had more female competitors than male.
I also never recall finishing better overall (relatively speaking) than I did in my age group.
For whatever reason it seems that endurance trail running is for women and old men!
Here are my favorite pictures of the day and how they make me feel.
Alive!!!
Grateful beyond words!
Today was of course rest day. As expected I am quite sore. Sore calves from the "ups" and sore quads from the "downs".
"Immensely grateful, touched, proud, astonished, abashed."---Boris Pasternak
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Peter
I suspect it is a test to see if anyone is paying attention, but your numbers don't add up. I think the numbers you quote of each gender finishing is probably the number who participated, not the number of finishers?
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Love old john
Congratulations on your run, but....10 km from my house, my birthday, and not so much as a phone call! I'm hurt.
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