Quote Originally Posted by Marco View Post
Yes, it's disturbingly similar and it doesn't take too much thinking to see what's going to happen



I have never used, or even thought of using, drugs to improve my sporting performance. I can report, however, that a large dose of shock and adrenaline will make you run faster... until it wears off and you really pay for it.
I cut my hand open on the descent from Scafell in the Borrowdale one year. The only way I could stop the bleeding was by gripping a palm sized stone. This got me down to Styhead where a Marshall had some tape which did a better job. I thought adrenalin wore off after a short while but I actually had my best ever second half run in that race. The carry on afterwards to get it repaired was a minor epic of logistics involving my bike, a friend's car, my campervan and a kayak - a bit like the old proverb about getting a fox a hen and a bag of grain across a river.