Making friends with barnacles

Some of my best friends are barnacles!

No, I haven’t plunged new depths of depravity or finally bored all my other friends to death. I just NEEDED those barnacles today…. the reason?…. a 9km stretch of brilliant rocky coastline that made up part of the wicked course for the final race in the XTerra series. It was beautiful but technical and slippy, so barnacles gave much-needed traction on otherwise treachorous rocks, and I really did come to appreciate these under-rated animals (or at least their hard shells!). As well as the coastal section there was another 14k of lovely trails, taking in a mixture of native bush and farmland. I felt really good, despite a big week of training in the lead up, and clocked in just seconds over 2 hours. This was enough to win me the Series title (best 5 results from the 6 race series) within the Masters Men category. I was really rather choughed with this, I think my first ever, running title! How different it might have been if it wasn’t for the barnacles…..

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Bruce says:

August 30, 2009 at 10:13 pm

congrats on the masters title.

Casey says:

August 31, 2009 at 7:28 am

good on ya Mal!

Greg says:

August 31, 2009 at 8:57 am

Mal, you didn’t tell the people that the real reason you needed them was your plunge off the rocks into the drink at the point where the barnacles stopped! Well done, mate.