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amey
Mixed day for me, hit a pothole after about 17 miles at speed and had a spill, skinned my fingers, banged up my knee, thigh and elbow quite bad.
After taking stock and some help from @omash27 who happened upon chance to be behind me, I decided to take a dose of HTFU and get on with it. Spent the next few miles bleeding all over myself until I got to a garage and got some bits to patch myself up.
Smashed through the first 120k, started struggling a bit, I didn't take enough of a break at the control at lunch, it was so busy I pushed on until I found a shop, had a co-op pasta salad which annoyingly made me feel sick for the next hour.
At about 160k my thigh was giving me trouble and I was cramping, decided to stop at the pub and had half an ale, some salted peanuts, a bit of the epic flapjack I had left and a gel which sorted me out.
Picked up a reasonable pace on the way back but was suffering, the route back is grim but unavoidable.
Great day out, despite my off.
Glad I carried on a finished as last year I would have packed for certain. Another one ticked off for RRTY.