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Hardest thing I've ever done in my whole life! You know it's steep when they start marking the distances in 250m sections, distance becomes irrelevant when it's that steep. I've never run a race where I have 2km to go and I'm not sure I'm going to finish, the last 5km is absolutely brutal.
From 35km onwards the side of the trail starts to look like a battle zone, mostly people just cramping up but quite a few just sitting there because they've just ground to a halt.
There must have been a big group of elite runners who went off like nutters and utterly destroyed each other because I counted at least 15 who were either sat on the roadside or walking, they all had red numbers 1-200 so it always gave you a little boost when you passed one of them :)
4 of us did it and 4 of us finished which was the main thing, I had 4:20 in my head when I thought I'd be fit for it so I was pretty pleased with 4:36.
I think a mile longer and my wife would have caught me, 4 minutes was far too close for comfort :D