Got up very early on Sunday morning for a long drive through to Braemar and the 10 am start of the Lairig Ghru hill race - my longest event to date. 28 miles passing through a high mountain pass amongst the Cairngorm munros. Ran extremely well for the first two and a half hours - being very careful to take it very easy on any uphill stretch. With so much rain the river crossing was a bit of an adventure and at least one runner was washed of her feet. There was a very long stretch on unrunnable boulders near the highest point where the path largely disappeared for 3 or 4 long hard miles. After 20 miles there was a great downhill stretch through the forests of Rothiemurchas. Managed to keep running the whole way to the finish and a very pleasing time of 5 hrs 13 minutes.
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