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Tomorrow it’s the Millennium Way Relay - a 50 mile off road route that goes from Bingley over Oxenhope, Oakworth, Laycock, Steeton, Silsden, Addingham, Ilkley, Baildon and back to Bingley.

The course is split into 5 legs and each leg is completed by 2 runners.

I’m running leg 2 for Bingley with my mate Jamie Robinson. We have a reasonably strong team in the event this year so I hope I can do OK but I’m a little worried as Jamie is running much better than me right now so I think he’s going to run me into the ground (he’s looking forward to it as I killed him in the Calderdale Way relay a couple of years ago).

Our leg is 10 miles long and goes from Marsh near Oxenhope over Bronte Bridge then out to Laycock via Oakworth and Goose Eye. It’s a real up and down affair and the finish is truly awful as it’s a quarter mile of very steep tarmac hell to the handover so everyone will see us (well me at least) at our very worst as we cross the line and pass the baton to our leg 3 team mates.

Jamie and I recced it a couple of weeks ago and it was very wet. It should have dried out a bit now but I think I’ll still use my inov8 X-talons.

This week in prep, I’ve done very little just my 20 min runs in the morning and a 3 mile race (very low tempo) with my kids on Tuesday night. Then a steady hour on the road bike today.

I’ll be back soon to let you know how we got on……..

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