Well having re-appraised my 'performance' on the day and my wimping out at Cray, what I thought were maybe symptoms of (at least the beginnings of) hypothermia were probably not that at all but were hypoglycemia instead. For sure I was cold, really cold, but my feet, hands and head were all fine and it was only my body core (my torso) that felt icey cold; cold from the inside almost, maybe not at all helped by my first layer being damp from sweat.
What I was though at Cray was absolutely and completely starving, weak, really sleepy, I was slurring and I had very blurry vision. Having looked up hypoglycemia on wiki they all seem to be classic symptoms. Me eating two saucepan fulls of rice pudding and fruit salad back to back and two jam sandwiches pretty much as soon as I could in the tent at Cray demonstrates just how hungry I was. I had a huge baked potato with chilli as soon as I got back to Threshfield too (and seem to have been stuffing my face with food pretty much ever since then).
I think I got into some kind of food deficit by not eating properly at Dent (and again later at Redshaw) and would have probably done much better had I built up a energy surplus by eating, even though I felt slightly sick, at Dent. I should have asked for a jam sandwich or something as I always can eat those - I doubt I could've digested the sausage rolls on offer and was leaving Dent before I heard some other runner order baked beans (I forgot they were on offer).
The really really frustrating thing is that my legs were absolutely fine and they could have run on I'm sure. I even ran a couple of miles on Sunday afternoon and have run every day since then. As matey used to say in the Fast Show.... Booger!
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