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SideshowBob
Arducius
This weekends running was Pen Llyn 100 mile ultra. There were roughly 45 entrants and half of them DNS. As far as I can tell only 9 finished. I was 4th man (5th overall) which I was quite surprised about.
The field seemed pretty strong at the start. Lots of people talking about their Bob Graham's and Paddy Buckley's and fell races with me feeling like maybe I was out of my depth. I managed water and food intake well but had a big dip around 75-80 miles. Entered the penultimate checkpoint feeling like I was going to quit, left feeling like a new man and ran the next section really well, catching a few people and climbing strongly so made the most of it and motored to the final checkpoint. Slowed a bit after that but was still moving well and brought it home in just over 26hrs.