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Well done Hippo! You did extremely well to get to 38.5, walking alone is very soul-destroying, I know, I do a lot of it
Rah! Rah! Rah!
splat!
you have to laugh really
at least you flaming well tried. unlike a lot of us.
You did 38.5 miles more than I did anyway. What you described was remarkably similar to the nightmare going round in my head - I could just picture myself lying in a bog sobbing, not knowing which way to go. I can't help feeling my cat might have saved me from disaster! I think you did brilliantly too. All sorts of people just stick to safe events and never really leave their comfort zone. You went out and did it despite being frightened and only withdrew because they made you. You may not get the coffin badge, but I think you deserve a medal for true grit.
Well, only 3 weeks to Boddington.
Those quarter hourly chimes in osmotherley were torture. I'm glad someone else heard them. Mrs NMP slept like a log all night -she thought I was imagining things when I told her.
Well done for getting so far and writing such a brilliant event report.
Its also the English ultra championship.
Even tame little Henley on Thames had me sweating with fear on occasions, when I was lost and on my own. Imagining that fear magnified by the descents, the ascents and the moor - definitely stuff of nightmares.
Hats off to you. Well done.
NMP/Bog trotter, likewise, I couldn't have done it on my own. If I was strong at the end, you were amazing with the bog-trotting. Maybe you need to take up that sport. It was nice for Laura to have company as well, they did the supporting thing very well.
It's weird though 'cos I've felt a lot worse after races than this one, which is maybe a bad thing 'cos I might be tempted to do it again, and Casper's definately got to go back next year.
yep!
except it was the ravine
i could cope with the bogs
cant believe i finished this woithout pain 20 years ago
ok, it was dry
and i didnt have to worry about gettig lost
but nothing hurt after
im like john wayne up and down stairs
Ha ha!
xxxxx
Very good.
Me too.
i even had a rest day today
I fancy giving the London-Brighton a go.
i dont have a sub 4 hour marathon time, so would not be allowed to do london to brighton
Bog trotter
if i didnt have to do the ravine, i would consider this
It was just right for running but of course it meant a lot of the route was hard going