Cheers Stolly. Congrats on the Fellsman btw. Would love to have a crack at that one day.
Well done in the Beast race, that was a tough grind over the hills, though no enormous climbs it was fairly relentless and energy sapping. I struggled something terrible for the first 2 hours and felt awfull, but just ground away and finished at a good pace. Lovely day out.
Don't roll with a pig in poo. You get covered in poo and the pig likes it.
Yes, nothing particularly steep but definintely a long slog. I was the opposite felt like I could go all day up till about 2.5/3 hours and then dropped right off.
Great day though - the support from marshals and villagers was amazing!
Definitely gave me a thirst to do more long events and I'll be putting in a load of extra miles over the summer.
Don't be too scared about blowing up..
Better to live one day as a wolf and all that..
Its just if it happens week in week out its an issue.. but look at the top runners in the big races, especially races like the Y3PS and you'll often see a few of them way down the results.. and you think 'oh they had a bad run'.. but in reality they had a brave run.. sometimes it goes well sometimes not.. but running OK in every race of a year seems a waste..
The worst thing you hear is 'Yeah I ran well I beat X'.. and you know X blew up.. its just a fake plus.. means nothing.