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Holy shit, nice. Thats my current pace for a flat 5k 
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Was looking forward to todays run. Had walked the route over 2 days with Mrs T and another couple a year ago. Nice route and would prove a useful test of fitness for Western States in 6 weeks time 
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Was running with my son and his mate. Last outing with them both was a 32 mile trot along the length of the Rochdale Canal to the Centre of Manchester - the entire length of the canal. While this was a similar distance the terrain was totally different from the canal. A lot of up and down - over 1000m along the route and all of the flat tended to be over rough surfaces.
First of all a big shout out to Helsby Running Club who put on a really good event.
A 5 am alarm call, pick up son and his mate at 6am. Drive to Frodsham, registration, coach to the start at Whitchurch. Start at 8am.
Cool but sunny and the heat would build during the day.
Aid stations every 5.5 miles which made a useful target from point to point. Started on the canal out of Whitchurch, nice easy going for the first 5km or so.
Some really challenging climbs onto the ridges - views were stunning -either to Wales to the West or across Cheshire to the East.
Made some minor navigation errors about 3 times which maybe cost us 20/30 mins which was a bit frustrating.
Jack pushed me and his mate harder than we would have gone without him but we all stuck together until the end of the race.
A grand day out
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Good day out! A few from my club were doing it. Helsby do some great events and sandstone trail is lovely.
My friend was proudly the second to last finisher today. But a bit weird because they had a walkers category on the entry and then she was told that the cut off was 10 hours to discourage walkers 
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Nice work mate, sounds like a really solid day. You are bossing that new hat! 
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In other ultra news, this is just crazy speeds - I could hardly run 1km at this pace never mind 100 of them
thatās 5:53 per mile or 3:39 per kilometer pace for 62.2 miles/100 kilometers
Just nuts
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Needs to be a bit looser - was starting to give me a headache at the end
I was listening to the Trail and Error podcast and the Centurion one which talked about the Centurion 24hr track even with Robbie Britten. They canāt even fathom Aleksandrās speed and they arenāt too shabby themselves!
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Lots of runs popping up on my strava from UTS this weekend. Man, what weather they ended up with. Looked absolutely stunning!
The 100 miler looks absolutely epic. Got to be the toughest in the UK, surely. Certainly the toughest mainstream one.
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Hadnāt realised that was this weekend.
This sounds like fun 
Maybe pookey & tunster can recce it after Western States
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Will be pinned to my shorts and laughing at my sluggishness 
| FROM | TO | KMS | TOTAL | CUT OFF |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LIZARD | MULLION | 10.4 | 10.4 | NO |
| MULLION | CHURCH COVE | 4.4 | 14.8 | NO |
| CHURCH COVE | PORTHLEVEN | 7.7 | 22.5 | NO |
| PORTHLEVEN | PERRANUTHNOE | 13.5 | 35.8 | 6HR15 |
| PERRANUTHNOE | PENZANCE | 8.7 | 44.5 | NO |
| PENZANCE | LAMORNA | 9.8 | 54.3 | 9HR15 |
| LAMORNA | PORTHCURNO | 8.8 | 63.1 | 11HR15 |
| PORTHCURNO | LANDS END | 7.5 | 70.6 | NO |
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Sorry not so much for the donation, more for the madness, 430 miles SUW both ways. Heās a neighbour of mine.
Will be running the odd bit with him, sorry, the tinyest bits, maybe 15 miles at a time, mere sprints
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I really like this film. Iāve only met Victoria once at The Plague last year. (she was injured on crutches!) You can sense how much she wanted it!
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I am just in shot at 19:41
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I logged in to Facebook today for the first time in a while and one of the recommendations was a page about the Ultra Trail Snowdonia; there were loads of posts about ādonāt change it for people who should stick to parkrunā (paraphrasing) and some comments the aid stations were lacking and it was hotā¦ anyone know anything about it? Didnāt seem that hot last weekend?
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Yeah it was pretty warm by UK standards. Certainly not like anything you get if youāre out in the alps doing a similar race or anything. I think it was more (a bit like those hot London years) the fact that itās been such a crap winter/spring that nobody was acclimatised.
I have heard from a number of friends that aid stations were a) a bit poor in terms of offering for such an expensive bells and whistles race and b) some of them were running out of water (not so cool).
I think if it were a little event organiser you could maybe forgiven them getting a tad caught out. But if you want the big UTMB band wagon rolling in, then you need to step up your game. It seemed like āa lot!ā of people on the trails at once though. Add in the usual Snowdon normos traffic on a sunny weekend!
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Havenāt watched any clips yet but I know āRunning Cafeā has one out.
I looked up Claire Maxtedās finish (Wild Ginner Running), mainly because Iām amazed she has a trail running channel that survives based on her results and I find her distinctly āoddā but in some kind of car crash fascination, I canāt look away 
She is logged as a finished for the 50km with 12:57, which I was really surprised at with the cut offs being that generous.
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I listened a podcast interview with the RD of UTS before it was called UTS. He opened admitted getting the UTS was a commercial decision. He waffled something about getting the race out to a wider base but he kept coming back to the commercial clout of joining Mama Polettiās clan.
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Iāve got no problem with people wanting to expand. But the whole UTMB thing feels like proper selling your soul to the devil! 
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