Two Fat Ladies Weekend Does Not Quite Go To Plan

Well, Im a bit gutted but it cant be helped. Chris got back home from Marrakech [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marrakech] late last Thursday with a really bad chesty cough/cold.

This was the first chance he had to tell me he was not able to do the race and so I only had Friday to try and find a replacement. Typically enough this time round no one had contacted Ivan looking for a team mate and every one else I know either couldn't or wouldn't.

Since I had arranged to be there anyway, and knowing that they are always short of marshals, I decided to offer my services for the day. Obviously I would have preferred to race and wondered if I would just end up bored to tears all day and regretting going but ended up being plesantly suprised as I will cover in my next post

Mark

Two Fat Ladies, Two Races, One Weekend

Barronscourt race is now only a couple of days away and once again our training has ended up consisting of far too much MTBing and not enough running. Too late to do much about it now so roll on race day.

I decided that one race in a weekend was too easy so we are also going to give Irelands first mud race a go [http://www.mud-madness.com/info.html]. Should be good fun but given that I usually struggle to walk the day after an adventure race, it might be tough going.

Two Fat Ladies at Castlewellan - Mugshots

Finally got around to uploading the photos of the Castlewellan race. The link can be seen at the right. There are only a few photos as we seem to have managed to time things right to just miss the cameras! We also had photos taken at the obstacle course but they have not been made available - probably because of light levels by that stage. We will have to go faster in future to make sure we get more photos.