West Highland Way Race 2015
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Jun 2015
8:39am, 18 Jun 2015
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HappyG(rrr)
Was it the sight of whwrunner in midge net and dressing gown that did it?! Would have set my pulse racing too sants!  Enjoyed my food packing last night. Clothes and kit packing tonight. But I'm pretty happy I've got everything and will need very little of it on the day. It's good to have for "just in case" situations. I'm looking forward to the start, when it's all still not hurting. Looking forward to the hurty bits less, but will push on through as hard as I can. I am still amazed at these, err amazing, people who say they can do a whole ultra and not feel in pain. Maybe it's just not for me. I am in pain after anywhere from 4 to 8 hours and just have to gut it out after that and really don't enjoy it. Except finishing, I enjoy that, of course! And I love bits of it - the scenery, the chat, the sense of progress/achievement. But I don't enjoy the pain. Prob just a woose. And better suited to 100 metres than 100 miles! How does emotional manifest itself for you sants? A bit teary? Is that because you love it so much? Or nerves? Expect not that. Just excitement? G
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Jun 2015
10:37am, 18 Jun 2015
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santababy
tearful. Just saw IanS (hes in my work :)) and explained it to him- I put 6 months training into this race, I'm asking Susan to come from Dumfries & Nick from Lincoln and spend their precious weekend pushing me to my limits. I've had years going wrong - first yr great until Glencoe as you know, but at least I finished. second was awful and one going right. I wont know until I'm out there which it will be this year. simple as that. That's a lot to carry around with you thinking about all these things! |
Jun 2015
10:54am, 18 Jun 2015
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Duchess
Chanel ribbons yet?
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Jun 2015
11:08am, 18 Jun 2015
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HappyG(rrr)
Aww, hope you're not feeling too teary about it. I'm surprisingly chilled. Maybe it's just ignorance is bliss?! The start will be fine. Whereas in a 10K or a half it hurts from the start, and even in a marathon if you mess up first 3 miles you might miss your time goal by a few minutes. But in an ultra, in my limited experience, how it starts has virtually no bearing on how the middle or end go. You can feel carp for an hour or two at start or middle, and still finish strong and well. Or conversely, feel great at start or middle and feel you've got it cracked, but then crash horribly with only 15 or 20 miles to go. Rather than making me worried, it's sort of making me chilled. There's really nothing I can do to influence it. All I can do is try as hard as I can when the bad bits kick in. Which they will! Why do we do this again?! G
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Jun 2015
11:47am, 18 Jun 2015
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RedWineRunner
I feel less positive this morning and have experienced a return of utter terror. What the actual fark am I doing? Seriously. I woke up feeling quite content and then the realisation that it is tomorrow hit me like a tonne of bricks. However, this too shall pass. I'm sure I'll feel better about it soon. HappyG; I'm with you on the pain thing - usually after about 6 hours in for me, starting from the feet up. Thankfully Hokas have helped with the foot pain a little, but it is still a big issue. Pain is a luxury for the living though, to quote the great Fiona R. Santa; I have stopped allowing myself to think in detail about how big a deal it is for me; the culmination of 4 years of build up, how many people are giving up their time to help me achieve this goal, and how much it means to me. I just can't handle it - if I allow myself to go down that road I become waterlogged pretty quickly. |
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Jun 2015
12:43pm, 18 Jun 2015
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HappyG(rrr)
My wife is helping me keep it real by asking me if I can walk the dogs on Friday "seeing as I'm home anyway" and "couldn't I be a bit more accurate about what time I'm going to be at Fort William, because they need to know when to have dinner?" etc. G
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Jun 2015
12:49pm, 18 Jun 2015
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mrs shanksi
My husband was a moany git last night and told me I'm not allowed to do it again! He gets grumpy about all the hoo ha that surrounds it. I'm sure he'll have cheered up tonight when he's propping up the bar at the Stoney beer fest.... |
Jun 2015
12:58pm, 18 Jun 2015
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Tizer
Enjoying keeping up with this thread. Its quite a challenge and I wish you all the very best of luck
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Jun 2015
1:39pm, 18 Jun 2015
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RedWineRunner
redwinerunner.co.uk Some final bloggy thoughts... |
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Jun 2015
1:47pm, 18 Jun 2015
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mrs shanksi
Lovely blog R, great photos, bringing back memories for me too. I'm sure you'll get within your target times (or better) x
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