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Yeah rep deserved.
Losing the stomach contents must have been a setback, .. a tough overall distance for sure.
Liked the parts about nav in the clag, well done Im sure there was some helping each other on those sections.
All in all the hill threw everything at you which shows a great achievement to finish.
Its easy to read, however the experience of trotting along the trails and bridleway sections of thousands of walkers compared to being in deep fog relying on the compass has to be lived to be understood.
chapeau to chapeau bike

@rhb top effort with the run and great write up. In that twisted dafty sense, it sounds like a fun evening out.

A thought on foggy cross country nav towards a gate in a long fence ( or a bridge over a stream). "Aiming Off" where you deliberately want to miss the gate works quite well. If you aim to be 100m left (or right) of the objective, you know with a good degree of certainty that hitting the fence and turning right will get you there... saves a bit of time micro navigating or getting to the fence and wondering which way to go

^ Great tip

Well done! :)

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Cheers folks, and thanks for that tip @user69121

Another runner has done a 15min video documentary of their experience of the event:

https://youtu.be/grmBhvrhUoQ

Thank you! I had my first session last night- she is excellent. I was very impressed, she diagnosed loads thatjust from studying my posture in the appraisal. Legs feeling good.
Which is just as well as I have a managed to get onto White Rose run in Huddersfield on Saturday :)

Chapeau!

Saturday

That's the 100 then? Enjoy!

Hope @Spares has been going well.

In other news, https://www.inov-8.com/roclite the 325 look like a nice n+1 shoe option

Glad to hear it. Knew I was highly biased for a reason! :-)

290s look like nice trail race shoes. Loving my 212 Talons even though it's not wet enough yet.

Thanks @rhb yes it was the 100 - I binned it off after 55 miles and 10 hrs as I started to need to walk the running bits.
I'm ok with that though, as it meant I got a few pints in Marsden then some zzz's in the car, and the whole of Sunday eating out the fridge back home.
Its a great event, tough course with circa 60% off road.
It has highlighted that I need to get more miles under my belt though!

55 miles and 10 hrs as I started to need to walk the running bits.

That's pretty rapid though, suggests flatter EfM could be big distance covered.

I'm ok with that though, as it meant I got a few pints in Marsden

Riverhead Brewery Tap? Hope so, it's lovely.

Tough Course

It looked tough on map, i liked the little detour by Marsden to take you up a steep hill!

Not sure if I could have done better on a flatter EfM as I walked the hills, plus I had benefit of descents.
Yes! It was the Riverhead Brewery, couldn't have found a better place for recovery beers - they called time early though.
Any course in the North is tough for a Southerner like myself - on the drive in to event HQ I hesitated in even driving up some of those hills.

@Spares I grew up a few miles North of there and there's certainly some good hills.
Up hills are good for a walking break and time for food. Although steepish downhill hurts, so I'm not massively quicker

What do you mean by EfM? Im guessing something about Elevation and Milage

Riverhead Brewery, couldn't have found a better place

It is brilliant, good Sunday roasts upstairs too.

What do you mean by EfM

http://escapefrommeriden.co.uk

Haha. Of course, Escape from Meriden as mentioned a few posts back, which had me curiously plotting a route out towards Grimsby. Plus I was chatting to a friend at the Glen Ogle 33 on Saturday and he's heading down for it.

Took it "steady" at Parkrun on Saturday and ran the fastest 5k I've done in a good while. Took two friends along to the Parkrun, one got a new PB and the other ran 19:35 so all happy.

I was looking forward to a good week of running. Then on Sunday had an axe+thumb incident which means no running for at least a week.

You use your thumb for running? Crazy skillz.

You haven't seen me run...

No but any movement like that is painful, plus I was told to keep it warm so the blood supply isn't affected and it heals properly and I (hopefully) retain sensitivity in it and don't need another operation.

Oof, sounds serious. Hope it heals soon.

which had me curiously plotting a route out towards Grimsby.

There's an entry for sale on FB if you're interested? ;)

On EfM:

My super duper low nav canal route is 10miles further than the mapmyrun much nav, much busy road 'autoroute'. Roughly same elevation.

Reckon 10miles could be 3 hrs moving.

Stick to canals (Plan A) or go short/sketchy(Plan B)?

Plan C is to look at all tiny footpaths but that'll bump nav up a lot more, plus claggy mud = slower.

Plan D is go for the lamest escape attempt award, walk to nearest travelodge then sleep until Sunday breakfast.