Running

From the first photo I thought, 'Hang on, he's necked it all already...' and then I realised why they were open!

Was looking for a tall ginger but either I was too fucked or there were quite a lot of ginger-looking blokes serving, and with the state that I was in I didn't fancy having to explain DAS to a bewildered non-forumer.

Run was slightly underwhelming personally. Didn't manage to break the arbitrary 3hr barrier I'd set myself as my quads totally seized up in the 6 miles, dragging my intentions for negative splits and a pacy last 40 mins into a final time of 3.03. disappointed as I've run 22-odd miles at pace in training and been nowhere near as fucked as I was in the event. Silver lining is that it's a Pb from my last marathon effort (10 years ago) and it's my first proper crack at running properly so realistically it's something to work on if I decide to can the bike racing. In future I'd up the weekly mileage I think. over the 4 month plan the biggest week I had was 56 miles and I think that showed in the finale today. I was hoping that similar to bike racing I could compensate with more speed work, intervals, and a good aerobic base from the bike. For the moment longer runner hours are not practical with family and work life, but knowing what I know now I'd make extra effort to find the time.

I still thing hydration is someThing I need to work on. Peeing super dark now even though I took a bottle at practically every water station. The effects on bike performance are so dramatic that it must be massive for runners but practically it's so much harder to take on the right amount of fluid.

Lemme know if you happened to nab an extra Erdinger top! I love their 0%