So I just checked the Chicken Run website, and see that I am entered in the Trail class - number 96.

A quick search on WikiPedia tells me that 96 is an untouchable number. This has got something to do with the fact that you can't come up with the number by adding together the divisors of another number. The number 4 is not untouchable, since it can be made up by adding together 1 + 3 (the divisors of the number 9). The number 5 is untouchable since there is no number whose divisors add together to give a total of 5.

96 is also the name of a town in South Carolina. This has nothing to do with racing but it just seems odd to name a town after a number.

On Sunday, I will be wearing an untouchable number. Nice omen, given my last race experience at Track n Trauma.

Thing is, I am not feeling particularly untouchable today - I'm feeling a bit low and not really sure why. I have enough things on the radar, and will probably start to lift as trail riding with AJP gets closer (this is on Friday).

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