Quote Originally Posted by sore legs View Post
Fantastic advice - I went too fast last year at the first couple of hills and it all went wrong after that until Dent and I got my second wind - but by then it was too late and I could never regain the time where I bombed out.
Same here. Except my second wind didn't make an appearance until Stonehouse. I can remember clear as anything getting to the top of Gragareth (13 miles in), setting off along the ridge and thinking "shit... this is going to be a deeply unpleasant 49 miles". Turns out it was a deeply unpleasant 15 miles or so, but the second half was much better. Enjoyable even! The worst part of the whole day was discovering on arriving at the finish around 3.30am that the cooked breakfasts wouldn't start being served until 7am. I was unconsolable.