I lied

OK, when I said no walk breaks, I didn't mean to include cross country in that. There are times when walking is absolutely essential...

Although, I'm just proud of the fact that I managed 5 miles cross country the day after a 20 miler. In road shoes, through thick and very slippy mud. It's no wonder I had to walk parts of it, to be honest, the surface just wasn't runnable in parts without studs, and it was definitely the toughest course of the races I ran.

And I still managed to get the 3rd scoring spot for my club, beating my two previous runs where I came in 4th. Even though my overall position was lower, maybe it was just a bigger field this time? I found that on the bits with a decent surface (mainly the same bloody canal towpath I ran down yesterday) I was overtaking loads of people, but on the slippy bits people with proper shoes would overtake me, then I'd get stuck behind them on narrow bits where I could run faster, but just couldn't overtake. So next year, some proper shoes and hopefully I'll be flying.

Did I just write a sentence that implies that I'm looking forward to the next cross country season?!