Thanks to whoever merged my new thread with the old one, I did do a search but for some reason it didn't come up with anything, I'll have a look back through this in a bit.
Blackrod Lad - I'm aware of it's toughness, that's why I'll be doing the 80km ;) I haven't done nearly enough ultras yet to describe myself as an ultra runner, but I'm building up slowly adding an extra big race per year - next year I hope to do four big races between 50-80 km. Then who knows, I'm hoping to be ready for a UTMB perhaps in my 40th year (37 at the moment). But for the meantime my sights are fixed on this one...

