Would you Muggle that

As promised I entered the Mini Muggle today, a Hogweed Trotter event, this was the second year of the Hogweed Muggles, and although they are still in their infancy these races have a lot of promise. They run three races in one day which range between 5 and 16 miles of multi terrain.

My race went better than I thought and I can only take positives out of today, ok I didn’t win the Mini Muggles but I came second but I did lead the race up until the last 1/2 mile, when I was overtaken by Anthony Glover, who although runs for Westbury Harriers, ran for his 2nd claim club Hogweeds. Anthony has been running well all year and todays win was his second in just over a week. The positive thing is that I only finished 24 seconds behind him, which after a week and a half of training after a bad chest infection in which my lungs are still not 100% but I finished second on a multi terrain course I haven’t ran off road for a year and a half.

I am now totally enthused and can’t wait to go training again tomorrow, not sure what to run tomorrow I will wait to see what my legs feel like.

Soon, I will publish my training programme and will report against it, along with the highs and lows of balancing this off with a young family.

Oh and before I forget congratulations to Simon Laraway who finished 3rd behind Anthony and I.

Comments

[Jan]

Well done, Phil! Everyone I spoke to after the races said they'd enjoyed it, even if they found the course challenging.
I'll have to run it sometime.