Adamstown Co Wexford today for the Leinster Intermediate. This is traditionally the least attended cross country race in the Irish calendar and today proved no exception. There was barley 60 on the line.

Adamstown is a nice course to the right of the cross roads as you enter the town. The mens race today was 10K, whilst the womans is only 4K. I cant help but feel that at some point someone made a mistake, the mens was run as a 10K rather than 8K and things have never moved back. The Dublin race is only 8K and the womens arce is usually half the mens race.

My race today started off faster than I had in recent races but I quickly settled into my familiar slow start pattern and had a few people go past. After the first 1K lap I found my feet. The course was solid enough, if were not for allot of cow shit runners could have been worn.

The course was short so 6  1.5K laps following the the initial 1K short lap.  After a few of the longer laps it felt like we had run allot more than we actually had. I was tired at the start of the race today  and it started to show after just four laps , legs started to feel heavy but I decided to try and pick off guys in front and use anyone that went past to gain ground. This strategy worked and apart from a group of three guys that got away on the 5th lap I continued to make up ground over the course of the race. Like my last cross country I finished without feeling like I might die. Whilst i think I’m running slower than I can at at the moment, I’m starting to think that comfortable fast running is best.