Beinn Dubh hill race

It's bog and burn time of year again, I love this series of short midweek hill races so despite not really being hill fit i thought it would be nice to make my racing comeback here. Beinn dubh is the 1st race in the series this year, i ran it for the 1st time last year and had a decent run to finish 9th in 40:37. I was curious to see just how much fitness i have lost since the brain haemorrhage. The answer unsurprisingly was quite a lot as i toiled up and down in 47:59 for 36th place.  The long runnable descent in this race is fantastic fun, but it trashes the quads and 3 days on mine are still feeling pretty tender. A bit of work to get the hill fitness back then i think.  Fellow bella al had a great run to finish 1st vet in 38:49, 5 mins quicker compared to my 7 mins slower- interesting to see where our respective fitness levels have gone in a year! Onwards then, to Kaim hill race next wednesday, a slightly shorter and smaller hill which i did in 34:38 last year, so lets see if i can at least keep it under 40mins.