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Suggestions for a second ultra.
Hi. So I struggled around Ladybower 50 last week and will be back to hopefully do better next year. I'm thinking of adding a second ultra next year, maybe something more adventurous my map reading skills are pretty non existent but I can learn, so I'm thinking more off road. Not necessarily the worlds longest, and I'm not a mountain goat, so not sure about very steep ones, but who knows 
Thinking about the wall, but not sure if that is quite off-roady enough. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Doing London in April, and MK marathon in early May, so April and most of may are out, Ladybower will be sometime near the end of September again I guess.
Thinking about the wall, but not sure if that is quite off-roady enough. Any suggestions would be appreciated. Doing London in April, and MK marathon in early May, so April and most of may are out, Ladybower will be sometime near the end of September again I guess. 
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Why not check out some of the LDWA events if you fancy a crack at map reading without the pressure of strict cut offs?
I am doing an event by LDWA at the end of January called the Wilmot Wander - 32 miles and only £12 with a hot meal at the end!
Some of those for the middle of next year look really interesting. If I did a 2 day event and cannot complete it in one day, can you just camp and carry on when recovered?
I like the fact that they are walker events - am less likely to come last!! I missed Ladybower last week due to injury - some pictures I have seen look fab.
I am signed up to do the Wall next year as my first proper ultra (Dont really consider LDWA as races as they are more like get togethers for like mindd people!). I have just finished Chris Foremans The Wall Ultramarathon book today and it gives a great insight into the event - only took me a couple of hours to read and a couple of quid on amazon.
There are some nice ultras in the early months of 2014 such as County to Capital and Thames Trot.
There are a lot of nice events in the summer.
You mentioned the Wall. Some people slate it because of the cost, but it wants for nothing in terms of support, and it gets pretty off roady in places.
It might also be worth looking at Race to the Stones.
As others have said, you won't go far wrong with LDWA events.
I'd second the recommendation of an LDWA event. I did one last weekend, and it was awesome fun. I'm a very slow runner, so always have the threat of the cutoffs nipping at my heels. For this I didn't, so could just relax and enjoy it. And it was great.
Plus they had custard in cups. What more can you want?
I might do one of them earlier in the year. I got a little carried away and signed up to the Wall sounded fun and well I just got carried away
The custard was optional, if that helps...
a short easy to navigate ultra is Round Ripon - 35 miles - 5th oct this year, did it last year and loved it, quite diverse terrain too - if you recovered well you might just get in this year
which one ?
So it's now about 72 weeks since I laced up for the first time.
nice - have a good one
Yup I've done a few LDWA events all very friendly
Doing Sidmouth saunter 30 miler in a couple of weeks 