Gazz - any chance you could pick up pair of those panaracer xc's for me, local Halfords devoid of anything approaching a decent deal. Let me know - I can paypal over the money and perhaps rustle up a virtual Star bar
Good run up the Pentlands the day, well covered in mud and sheep shit by the end of it. Paced myself reasonably well, and managed almost 4 hours although nowhere near a race pace and I didn't have much left in the tank by the end. Weird, my arms were hurting more than my legs when I got back to the car. Apart from the wind, weather was brilliant. Burns and runoffs in full spate after all the rain, and it's really muddy in places, took me a while to get into the groove, was really a bit too tentative at first, but was digging it at the end. A good use of 1 days annual leave I reckon.
So what's the verdict on those waterproof socks? Anyone use them? Feet were soaking pretty early on, and those waterproof bootee things wouldn't have helped much either, since the water just comes battering in through the holes in the soles for the SPDs.
Looking forward to Sunday, legs and arms should be halfway normal feeling by then... Shall be taking it easy tomorrow with an Edinburgh festival day out with the offspring.
