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I'm number 313 see you if your at the back
All packed now at last. Number 127.
Best of luck folks.
It is a fantastic event, for those of you who have not done it previously.
Better start my packing.
Bit harder for me because I have no crew and the drop bags don't allow for much. Since I'm leaving a pair of shoes at mile 52 that's that shoe box pretty well full. My finish line bag which is allowed to be the size of a small kit bag will also have to have my overnight stuff and new kit for a race I'm doing on BH Mon before going home that evening.
Bring it on, though, eh?
Good luck guys. Ran this in 2012..one of my proudest moments ever
#198
Lets do this! See you on the other side.
Let's go get us a buckle. Good luck!
What a perfect day cant see a single cloud from my window in richmond. Weather forecast look great no rain. Bring it on!
Looks like we are going to see some fast times.
The night section will be nice at this time of year, because the Thames realy comes alive at night.
Good luck everyone running this today (and tomorrow!).
The night part was actually my favourite part of the 2012 race
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Hopefully no snow tomorrow though!
Go on B2B n everyone else
Dill flying at halfway
Luck everyone still going.
B2B now just past half way....so proud of all the guys and girls
If he calls send him all our best wishes
I'm doing that bed thing. must be amazing doing what he's doing. Got everything crossed for him.
hard looking at the online board, wondering about the stories behind the results. Well done to those who have finished and those still out there.
Amazing that they are still out there- I can see a couple of the thread guys have finished, a couple have dropped, and 2 seem to be still going.
Can't imaging how it feels to go into the second afternoon, hope they get there.
I guess we need to give them a day or 2 to sleep / recover before we hear the stories
No!!
they have a hungry crowd desperate to hear their tales
This was mile 67 at around 3am, quickly becoming a bit of a warzone after the long, cold stretch from Reading. Lots of shivering bodies and foil blankets. Have never made so many cups of tea in a 12 hour period!
Well done to everybody, some looked remarkably fresh, others looked utterly miserable but most managed to keep themselves moving. The leader came through at 19:30 and was an incoherent mess, propped himself over the table, muched on a few tomatos and grunted a bit - the only reason I wasn't more concerned is that James said this is exactly how he would be when he came in.
It looks like the last official finisher was 92 seconds inside the cut off! wow!!
Oooh that photo looks scarily familiar
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I can vaguely remember some ham-fisted attempts at changing the batteries in my head torch whilst sitting behind a mountain of used tea-bags in that hall
. Its funny what images stick in your mind at that time of the morning...
That was fun and a little bit tough. I think the flatness of this one really caught me out. I had a bonk (not in the good way) between 60 and 70, and was then attacked by the sleep monsters until the end. I managed to hang in there to finish in 22.21, but the second half was as much as I've struggled in an even.
Lots of aches and pains and blisters and chafing and lumps and bumps, but worth it for a buckle.
As I said on Twitter, thanks to Centurion staff and volunteers for making a mid-packer feel like a world champion.
Hi all. Well I got it finished, just!
Everything went to plan up until about mile 60. Then the wheels fell right off. Combination of dead legs and a really bad shoe choice.
Well done to all those who took part.
Blog to follow.
Well done all of you
anyone know how T Rex got on?
He was towards the end of the people coming through 67m at Whitchurch, said he'd had some problems with his legs after I think Henley. Didn't hang about long and looked a lot fresher than many, but got the feeling he was putting a brave face on it. Fingers crossed he managed to keep going until the end.
Brilliant effort by everyone who took part. I was following it closely as I am eyeing it for my first 100 miler next year...there seemed to be a high number of DNFs looking at the Centurion website, when as conditions go, this weekend seemed pretty perfect for a run. Was there any particular reasons for the high number of DNFs or was the drop out about normal for a 100 miler?
I'm thinking of doing it for my first hundred miler next year too
I would guess high DNFs were due to a unseasonably cold night following the warm day (3 degrees in Rdg on Saturday night), together with a lot of people choosing it as a first 100 hence less experienced with running through the night
Yeah I would say the cold was the main culprit, though not sure there were too many more DNFs than usual. We had at least 3 people leave our aid station to return 5 mins later a shivering wreck and have to pull out. Warm aid stations may have played a part too, once your speed drops it's really hard to get warm again when you go back out into the cold.