February - The Long and the Short of it. A not quite race report
February is too short. Our running club has set a championship challenge (in lieu of races) to run a fast 5k during February. The route choice is your own. Hence lots of Goyt Valley Striders have been throwing themselves off the top of big hills and hurtling down in an attempt to break the land speed record. My first attempt was misjudged. I found a big hill, ran down it I won't bore you with the details but I still had a lot of 5km left when I got to the bottom. I ended up running back through the village at 6pm on a Friday night, dodging the socially distanced chippy queue which must have cost valuable seconds. It was still my fastest ever 5k but I thought I could do better. The shortness of February meant that I didn't have time to recover properly before having to do another attempt. Attempting a route tried and tested by my better (at least at running) half, I took myself up another hill on a fine early spring day. I stood for a moment at the top of the hill and looked a