
This passed week-end did not fail to the rule. Early Sunday I got up as I usually do, eating my usual breaky at a minimum 3 hrs before race schedule to start. As the weather network had predicted, the condition was less then desirable. It was cold, and by cold I mean 10 oC, it was raining, and the wind was best suited for a sailing race then a triathlon.

So once I got to race site, prep the transition had to be for condition, my running shoes placed in a plastic grovery bag and finding a way that my bike wouldnt get blown of the rake. But I did. Once that was done, we did things in a typical military fashion, HURRY UP AND WAIT, but we added the freeze. So to keep warm I did few extra warmup exercises.
Finally we got our race brief, once that was done, in no time the race started.


Finally the run, well this run was epic, I ran a faster pace then the 5k CAF National Running Championship over twice the distance on a wet and slippery terrain with hills and 50% of this run was on soak grass. But I loved it. I have trained few times on this cross country race course, in dry condition and I have to say, it was more gentle on the knees and ankle that way, thanks to mother nature.
So I was first pretty much the whole race but at the 6km mark, speedy gonzales Billy Bostad passed my like I was standing still, it made me feel bad for a moment but then I realized that Im still second which is pretty good one its own and if I wanted to stay in the second spot I had better too keep hustling.
Some toute, I had a great race, thanks to all the volunteers, and organizers. Same to all the participants who shown up in such a terrible weather condition.