West District XC Relays

This year's race was in Kilmarnock. Conditions weren't too bad and I was on the second leg for our A team. The course was more or less a single long lap of the Masters' XC course from earlier in the year, but with the long uphill replaced by a series of switchbacks, thus eliminating the only advantage I had. Ben was on the first leg and handed over to me in third place, which I held onto for almost two minutes before Sean Fontana raced past. In all I lost 7 places but managed to avoid falling, finishing the supposed 2.5 miles in 14:13 for a 5:41/mile average. We finished 12th overall and I was second fastest for Garscube on the day.