Some quick planning the night before, over a tipple.

At the beginning … there were two clean, non-sore runners …

After a while, the sun came through …

… and rumours of severe weather warnings seemed far off the mark.

Fuelled with fries (stupid, stupid), we suffered through a very difficult third interval.

Interval 4 around Massey campus was the first of the dark runs.

When will this end??

Around 2:30am, soaking wet, we were almost finished with our sixth interval.

Interval 7. Now we may as well push through. So close.

And what a wonderful treat to be joined by Graeme (all the way from Whanganui) and June!

When Gerry first told me about the Ultra Interval Challenge, I was very excited as this sort of thing is right up my alley. It is a worldwide initiative where everybody started at the exact same time, irrespective of where you are in the world. In NZ our starting time was 10am on 23 July. The idea was to run 10km every three hours over a 24-hour period. Therefore 8x10km, totalling 80km. Our initial intention was to turn it into a wee event, by having a base camp with supplies, access to toilets, etc, and hopefully, manage to lure some friends into joining, but then we got busy with other stuff and all but forget about the challenge. Continue reading →