New hashtag - #sohsos
As Claire has convinced me that I should still take part in the Beacons Ultra next week (if I really want to!!) I thought that I should test myself with some decent mileage. A 50km was always on the training programme so I decided to give that a go and duly set off to Newborough Forest at a not too indecent hour.
I was almost immediately pissed off as Map My Run app was refusing to play ball and kept crashing. Eventually I gave up and just carried on with the run. Fortunately I had planned the route and knew the distance of the loop that I was intending to run a few times. The planned distance was therefore 46km, a sort of metric Beacons Ultra if you like!
As a runner, I have always been a little schizophrenic and there have been many times when Weak Dan has made suggestions to Strong Dan and got his way. Today, after lap 3 and 23km in the bag, it began to rain quite heavily and Weak Dan started to do his thing, asking Strong Dan how would it be to step off after 4 or 5 of the 6 planned laps. This went on for about 5 minutes until Strong Dan remembered the promises he had made to think of Claire's strength and 'never give in' attitude and woke from the trance that Weak Dan had instigated. All thoughts of not going the full distance were put to one side, I got my Montane rainproof smock, quaffed a Complan shake out and happily trotted on.
For some reason I also started to think what my G2G Hualapai tent mates would have done and I know that none of them would have taken the short option. From then on the hashtag at the top was born.
I eventually got back to the car after a shade over 5hrs. Considering the terrain and weather plus carrying full race pack plus an extra 2kg in water, that wasn't too bad an effort. 46 miles next Saturday now doesn't feel so ominous. It's still going to hurt but that doesn't matter and I know I'll make it to the pub in time for the quiz.
Conscious that I haven't posted any pics yet on this blog and have failed miserably to try and upload some now so it's just words again I'm afraid. Soon though...soon.
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