My first ever 100km race and it was over trails and had 4,600m climbing.
It just worked and I got it done! :)
It was a surprisingly quiet race mentally - even the last 5 hours in the dark on rough trails. Hard to describe the almost 'Zen - like' feeling.
I never considered how far I'd run nor how far left to run. The only thing to think about was where I was and what my body felt like.
And perhaps not surprisingly, I was just waiting for the wheels to fall off late in the race. But that never happened.
My initial target when I signed up in January was 21 hours, but by May I felt I could set a real challenging target of 19:30 hours. So imagine my surprise when I finished in 17:41!


Had a little trouble with the support crew getting lost heading to the important 53km CP. Eventually they arrived but it cost me 20 minutes and meant I had cooled down and felt quite sick heading out to the biggest climb on the course. This was the last daylight CP and was scheduled to be a major stop - new socks, shirt, shorts, restocking of personal fuel. None of that happened except the re-fuelling. Need to ensure crew are in place at the nominated points.

Beer!


Cautious approach to pace as it was my first 100km race. Appropriate caution but can slip that shackle next race.


Outstanding race given the challenges thrown up by COVID. And to the great credit of the organisers, they gave people the option of a FULL refund or a transfer to November's race. (This was originally scheduled for July , our winter).