Ultracycling

I don't envy his upbringing. Sounds like a real life Gump, poor bastard.

"Flagging at around 300 miles, he was staggering slowly across the road. He asked for six double espressos with 15 sugars."

Sounds like every cafe stop in Italy with @Digger.

I like

'A lot of people spend a year planning for challenges, raising all the sponsorship in the world, and then bail out early on. I let my running do the talking.'

http://www.marathonmanuk.com/

I dislike

'Joanna and their two-year-old son, Alexander, were left with the remaining £40 to live on for the next seven days at home near Richmond Park, while Young pushed his body further still.'

Hey, I dislike people around Richmond as much as the next person but they seem like a nice couple... ;)

Yes. That stuck out to me too, I just hoped it was exaggerated for the article.

That will teach her to owe him 20p.

Yeah, pay your debts!

Well, he's sponsored now so maybe they can squeeze Skins for some dosh.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=diZgO_oZBZU

She has "the stare"

The crazy?

She also has the same inability to finish a race because she can't breathe as me... so she's clearly a legend. ;)

SHOUT.

There other vidoes are awesome to, great production.

And there I was trying to do some work.

Yep

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She's cool.

Not many details yet but Mike Hall's ValleyCat is back, 22-24th April this time... https://twitter.com/Valleycatcc/status/702868204243316736

http://www.route66bikerace.com/

Somone sent me this; Barkley 100. https://vimeo.com/97270099

'You haven't tested your limit until you try something you can't do' Lazarus Lake

Mad. Would like to attempt

Wow, can't run, but still really inspiring

There's a fantastic account of the Barkley Marathons in a book called (I think) Through The Wall, when a guy attempts to be the first ever finisher and it was a year where they had some of the worst rain ever. It's a mad race.

EDIT: Turns out it's on Google Books. Starts at the bottom of the linked page:

https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=BsF2AwAAQBAJ&lpg=PT58&ots=tIsVzKYR8f&dq=barkley%20marathon%20through%20the%20wall&pg=PT52#v=onepage&q&f=false

Thanks will read.

Successfully pushed myself to breaking point on Friday. Raced the first ever Braunton 150. 150 miles (and 20,000 feet of climbing!) around Exmoor and along the rugged north Devon coast. It was amazing. The group depart was at 11am from Braunton, I rode right through the night, but around 8am the next morning, my knee gave up. It's so hilly around there, and with so much pushing up steep rocky tracks, it just hurt too much to go on. I limped home on some A/B roads.

I later found out, if I had made it, I would have been first person in, by about 2 hours! Fuuuuuu.

https://www.strava.com/activities/527123310