Karl Gray the man to follow ��
Karl Gray the man to follow ��
Bob, I followed those directions in Shipley Asda and it took me into the back of store bakery area. Are you certain I shouldn't have taken a bearing through Beers and Spirits?Originally Posted by Bob
Doesn't bode well for tomorrow. I really messed up a batch of tiger bread.
And Tiger beer ��
Never touched a drop, Your Honour. You know me, Trevor: a race tomorrow, my body is a temple.
My body is Buddha shape
https://youtu.be/h9oF8IP4BPA
My body, your body, everybody move your body. (Sorry, just had to do it)
Have a good run tomorrow- everybody
See the light in the night
If I'm able to 'Move My Body' in any significant fashion after the Blue Pig checkpoint I'll be delighted.
8th HH for me since 2003.
"Get yourself together, Jones" - Ray Davies
Well, I felt fine for the first four hours. I rather wish there hadn't been a second four hours.
Thanks to Brett and all the helpers.
A big thanks to the marshall at the final checkpoint who persuaded me to eat some pork pie. It must be some superfood because I seemed to go reasonably well until Leeshaw reservoir and then found amazing energy to run all the way to the finish and seemed to be passing runners as if I was Mo Farah from Penistone Hill to the finish (ok the similarity is a bit far fetched when you are a 61 year old near the back of the field).
Tough day in the saddle yesterday, but fantastic race as expected.
To be absolutely honest, I've been ill since Tuesday, and wisdom (and an agonising run/jog) up and down Haworth Main Street on Friday night was telling me not to race.
But as Joss Naylor said "if you ever want to do anything, and you've got some kind of ailment, you've just got to shrug it off".... So found myself on the starting line.
Despite feeling terrible from about 4 miles in, I grimly held on, and was only 3 minutes down on last year by the time I got to Heptonstall. Seeing as the final 7 miles last year was where I struggled, I fancied my chances of going faster. But unfortunately had taken too much out of myself, and unbelieveably I was 5 minutes slower than last year over the final stretch.
6hrs 19mins then. Not what I wanted before the race, but considering my state of health, I'm pretty pleased to run last year so close. Seemed to run more economically and kept the pace up without expending so much effort, and didn't suffer from any horrendous cramp. The hallowed figure of under 6 hours is definitely in reach!
Hello to Brett who I chatted to briefly at the start, hope your cold is better. Also I'm sure Stolly motored past me around 11 or 12 miles in, not to be seen again, so looks like you had a decent run. And I thought I saw some familiar faces at the whisky point, but not sure who they were, although the power of speech was evading me by that point...
Pete
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