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NotThamesWater
@HatBeard
Fucked my glute 10 hours into spitfire scramble and had to retire on just 4 laps. Pretty bummed out.
Was absolutely torturous conditions, tents were superheated ovens of hot air, and we didnt have a gazebo or anything so nowhere in the shade to escape the sun between laps, I was drinking between 1-2l of water an hour and my pee was still like full fat glass bottle lucozade and I was just walking most of the time, it was more orange than that trump baby blimp.
Managed to persuade 3 other teams to also take part from Run Dem & friends and they absolutely smashed it though.
RDC1 - Mixed Team of Five, 34 laps, 1st in cat, 5th overall, avg lap 42:52
RDC2 - Mixed Team of Five, 34 laps, 2nd in cat, 6th overall, avg lap 43:14
Mad Pace - Mens Team of Five, 29 laps, 2nd in cat, avg lap 50:29
RDC1 & 2 both finished 12 laps ahead of 3rd place in their cat and only 3 laps behind the four 8 person teams ahead of them in the overall standings who all would have had an extra 2 hours rest minimum between laps.
Mad pace (made up of a friend of our younger who died Pace and 4 of his friends who are kickboxers not runners) were 1 lap behind 1st place in their category. most of them hadn't done any running specific training at all in the run up to the event.