Well done Daz. You got to finish in the dark - great result and better than I managed on my first time way back when. It was good to see you there.
Also good to see SteveT and Mark and Socks! Sorry you couldn't make it, Drunken.... Get better soon.
I enjoyed chatting with Mrs Stagger and Tea & Cake on the jog up towards Lyme Park. You had a good result, helped by your excellent navigation. :wink:
I only decided to enter 5 days in advance when I knew I wasn't going to be away on business. A quick recce from Earl Sterndale to the finish in the heat of Wednesday left me wasted but I knew it would be in a good cause. I had to get some exercise in the legs (the first in nearly 3 weeks).
Come the day I set off slow and steady but finished stronger than I've ever done. I actually felt like an ultra runner for once because I wasn't reduced to the usual trudge along the canal towpath, Middlewood Way and Towers Road. It was my 14th time and I got my first ever sub-12 finish. The running flowed so freely and painlessly to the end it seemed unreal, like the most perfect dream.
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