Can't believe the amount of retirements. I know it was a warm day, but it wasn't a heatwave. Were people just completely unprepared physically to walk/run 61 miles, or didn't they look after their bodily needs by taking on sufficient fluid and just ran themselves into the ground.

With long events such as this, it is vitally important to take on food/drink at every major checkpoint, and except for Hill Inn, I usually spent 10-15 minutes at each doing just that, and still managed 17.5 hours.

Retirements can always be expected for injury or illness, but not this many. I was walking with someone between Dent & Stonehouses who seemed to be going very well, only for them to walk into Stonehouses and retire - still looking very fresh. I think some people just don't fancy it.

It would be interesting to hear of people's reasons for retiring ?

DB