Date: 24-25 April 2020
Time: 24 hours
Distance: 103km

Passing the supportive messages written by our neighbours provided a boost on each lap.

Paul’s sound system providing some good vibes.

Loving the drawings!

Living out of town makes for a laid-back, rural running experience.

Heading into the sunset. 🙂

Our aid station.

Late afternoon shadows.

Thanks to the tree-rich area large parts of the course is in shadow much of the day.

Always a highlight to finish a fifth lap.

Sunset silhouette.

Nothing better than hearty soup on a long run!

Midnight – one third down. Looking a little tired.

As we all know, ultra-running is basically an extended food-fest.

A very welcome dawn.

Still well-stocked, many hours down.

Counting laps. 1 lap. = 1.5k.

A Strava view of our aid station, and the corner in the middle of our 750m stretch, which we passed 136 times in 24-hours.

A hero’s finish, with Chariots of Fire on the boombox. Fantastic support by our lovely neighbours, Paul, Katy and the girls

These shoes were way past their sell-by date at the beginning of April. Yet, I still added more that 400 km to them in the past 25 days. Probably a physio’s nightmare, looking at the imbalances.

If anyone told me a few years ago that I would do a 100km training run, without it being an official event, I would have said, dream on. Not only is this physically a huge challenge, but also mentally. Getting your head around that distance takes some mind gymnastics. Getting your head around doing it outside of the support, comfort and camaraderie of others in an event, takes extra strong brain gymnastics. Continue reading →