Jethro reflects on the OMM

Posted in Dishing the Dirt by Matt Ward on Fri 30 Oct '09

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Partnering up with Steve Birkinshaw, Jethro Lennox took yet another great mountain marathon last weekend, adding the OMM to the LAMM and the BAMM titles won earlier in the year. Now he has had time to dry off and get some kip, he tells his tale from the Elan Vale…

Writing on the inov-8 Europe blog, Jethro states:

When six times winner Steve Birkinshaw asked me to run in the OMM with him earlier this year it was an offer not to be turned down. Traveling down with him I joked that the pressure was on him as I had already won two mountain marathons this year! We managed to overcome the tussocks, bog and running past a control and came out on top of the elite class at this years OMM held in Elan Valley in mid-Wales.

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