The convicts are ready!!!
Jan with the Meriden Crow and Jan with the Police 
Good luck Jan (and @Sparky support services)
Seems to be going well so far
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How is she doing @Sparky ?
Sorry for the late reply; quick update on Escape from Meriden
So we drove there Friday night for the midnight start and if you remember the weather that day was just awful. So the last few miles were through some pretty flooded roads. Consequently once Jan and her friend got started within the first mile they had had to go through said flooded roads which left them with soaked feet. I met them again at 8am (30miles48k). A quick change of clothes and off they went. However 8 hours of running through standing water was starting to take its toll. By 1pm I was ‘operating’ on blistered feet and their respective pace was just getting slower and slower. By later on in the afternoon walking for both was painful and the planned day 1 stop was getting ever later. The rain was not as heavy as Friday but never really stopped all day. Consequently by 9.30pm and after 107k of run/walking they both called it quits. They actually needed just another 4k to get their 60mile badge but neither could muster one more go. To quote Jan ‘Today this race has broken me’.
Its a shame really that blisters won the day. On a different day I think that they could have got to their day 1 checkpoint by early evening and then pushed on the following day. We woke up on the Sunday to glorious sunshine just to rub salt into the wound.
Its really a great race and if its your bag I can highly recommend. (What other race can you have a tarot card reading before you set off!!!) I think that for next year it reverts to the standard 24hour format.
@Symes - now AWOL from this place - has done it a few times. It’s almost his local event based on where he lives in the Meedlands.
Well done Jan
Soaked feet are not good in ultra’s
The very idea of broken blisters & standing water 
107km is incredible.
Bloody good effort that tell her 
I will, and thanks all for the kind words
Thats a great effort considering how painful it would of been .
You know how cold it was last night? And the snow we had the day before?
Why not do the Bob Graham Round in it? 
OMFG that’s bonkers, he’s well into leg 3 which is tough, then leg 4 might be the hardest section as fatigue sets in and some really tough climbs.
And he can’t even claim it as a winter round as the window for that is Dec to Feb
That’s funny!
26:44 in the end. I’ll make sure to let my colleague know on Monday, so he can tell his mate, that it wasn’t a winter round
It’s far far faster than I could ever do but doesn’t it have to be under 24:00 to count as a BGR?
Yeah, sub 24 to be officially recognised. I was tracking and he seemed to be on good time but leg 4 must have been tougher or he stopped for a while.
Think it was mostly leg 3
1 and 2 he was on sub 24 pace but lost 2 hours on 3. Maybe not surprising as I’ve seen videos of people on Lords Rake and the WW Trav in full winter climbing kit
Must have been a cracking adventure anyway
I do watch most of the ‘Round’ films I find but I’m not deep into the details. I know you can make your own route but seems like the last few years that there seems to be a route that doesn’t get changed much. Is that due to Jack Kuenzle’s record or does it go back before that?