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Spartan Badminton Beast - 4th race in the UK national series 🟢
✅ Beast PB by 18 mins (2:31:23)
✅ 5/11 in F35-39 AG
✅ 16/54 all AG women
Absolutely loved this one! The first of my two A races this year and one of my favourite races to date ☺️
A long distance, fairly flat course really suits me so I was super excited for it, especially after last year’s not going to plan. Redemption time! Not sure what came over me but I had a boost of confidence and decided to aim for podium - something I have never been close to achieving in a national series race, so it was full delusion time 😅
I pushed myself to start with people who are usually faster than me and see how long I could hold on for. Ran hard from the off and found myself in an epic battle with 3 others in my AG with positions switching throughout the race. I didn’t make podium but I wasn’t far off (only 35 seconds behind 3rd place) and am proud of myself for trying. There was under 5 mins between 2nd and 6th which shows how close our AG is!
Running felt good and most obstacles felt great, with the only fails the usual spear and ape hanger. I need to somehow overcome ape hanger because it’s always a mental block with it being over water and costs me time and places. I did attempt it this time but panicked when it was getting higher and dropped off, then still wasted more time panicking and coughing up water 🤦♀️ I’m about 80% confident I could do it over land, but because I don’t get the chance to practice, I’m not 100% confident so don’t feel safe doing it over water 🙁
Aside from ape hanger, the rest of the race couldn’t have gone much better. I pushed harder than ever before on the running, made up time on the grip/climbing obstacles, and was neck and neck with 3rd and 4th coming off the A frame - just lost it on the bucket carry as the others are much stronger than me. Really loved it though; close battles are my favourite way to race 🙌
And got myself an 18 min PB, a huge improvement on last year, so I’m happy with that! 🥳
Finished off the day with a fun social Super and Sprint with @team_wildfire_ocr to complete the one day trifecta of 39km and 75+ obstacles 🔥
✅ Beast PB by 18 mins (2:31:23)
✅ 5/11 in F35-39 AG
✅ 16/54 all AG women
Absolutely loved this one! The first of my two A races this year and one of my favourite races to date ☺️
A long distance, fairly flat course really suits me so I was super excited for it, especially after last year’s not going to plan. Redemption time! Not sure what came over me but I had a boost of confidence and decided to aim for podium - something I have never been close to achieving in a national series race, so it was full delusion time 😅
I pushed myself to start with people who are usually faster than me and see how long I could hold on for. Ran hard from the off and found myself in an epic battle with 3 others in my AG with positions switching throughout the race. I didn’t make podium but I wasn’t far off (only 35 seconds behind 3rd place) and am proud of myself for trying. There was under 5 mins between 2nd and 6th which shows how close our AG is!
Running felt good and most obstacles felt great, with the only fails the usual spear and ape hanger. I need to somehow overcome ape hanger because it’s always a mental block with it being over water and costs me time and places. I did attempt it this time but panicked when it was getting higher and dropped off, then still wasted more time panicking and coughing up water 🤦♀️ I’m about 80% confident I could do it over land, but because I don’t get the chance to practice, I’m not 100% confident so don’t feel safe doing it over water 🙁
Aside from ape hanger, the rest of the race couldn’t have gone much better. I pushed harder than ever before on the running, made up time on the grip/climbing obstacles, and was neck and neck with 3rd and 4th coming off the A frame - just lost it on the bucket carry as the others are much stronger than me. Really loved it though; close battles are my favourite way to race 🙌
And got myself an 18 min PB, a huge improvement on last year, so I’m happy with that! 🥳
Finished off the day with a fun social Super and Sprint with @team_wildfire_ocr to complete the one day trifecta of 39km and 75+ obstacles 🔥
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