I can run anytime of the day but anything over 16km or so needs to get done first thing, otherwise it seems a massive effort.
I managed a 50 mile training week last week - so on a bit of a running streak at the moment . With nothing to train for , its nice to have some motivation (some weight loss would be good!)
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Well, she smashed it by 10hrs.
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amazing effort!
I heard that Dan Lawson gearing up for another crack at the mens Lejog record in early August
I’ve entered the Nidderdale Way (short) Ultra. ~45k with 1000M ascent, on Saturday 15th August.
Starts at 2 minute intervals so I went for 8:58 in the hope I can make the cutoffs 
It’s just north of Harrogate and round some very nice parts of the Yorkshire dales. There’s about 4 different races up to 100 miles, all carrying ITRA\UTMB points.
I don’t need to bother training for 45k right 
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definitely not !
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Nidderdale is lovely - enjoy!
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This came up in my FB feed today
Might be a bit boring though. I wonder how many laps would be competitive?
It sounds like a backyard ultra:
That sounds like Laz’ Last man Standing?
this one just went to the last 2 runners with 41laps down.
ooops… edited to add… that was the last lap… so 170miles or so for the winner
I was entered into this for last April in NZ. Last year the winner went 29 laps I think. Knowing some of the people at the pointy end over here now, I had set my mind that I was going to go at least 36 hours. Now this is small fry compared to real countries, but I think it would have got me in the ballpark.
Unfortunately this COVID thing appeared and it was postponed until mid August, which was deepest darkest wettest winter over here and my wife was like, there is no way I am supporting you for 36 hours standing in a damp muddy paddock, so I shifted my entry to I assume April 21.
I am going to go down in a couple of weekends time and pick up some tips…
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Just seen another attempt at the FKT for LEJOG is underway, this time for the fellas.
North Downs Way 100 went ahead yesterday/still going. Looks like good arrangements for Covid in place. Heat looks like it was brutal with winner 4 hrs off course record and only 17 sub 24. Over 50% dnf so far
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The adventure blog doesn’t even know that LeJoG is westernmost to northernmost?
have you heard about your race yet. Rumours are that Snowdonia is moving towards a ban on all mass participation events, with UTS being elite only.
Dot watching alert 
If anyone is bored on Saturday you can visualise my misery of running 47k after naff all training 
I’m off about 9am, it’s a TT start with mostly 2 minute intervals.
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We will be travelling back from hols mate but best of luck.
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The race went quite well today, still a few stupid navigation errors despite following the route on my Garmin. For some reason I thought I was supposed to go right at one point ant stopped checking it, then realised I was off course so thought I’d pick it back up, only to realise I was going backwards this cost nearly 1k
A couple of smaller mistakes also added up, local knowledge really helps these things as the route signage wasn’t great in places.
I’d started fairly steady at a pace I thought I could probably hold for nearly 5 hours, which I’d hoped to get under. At one point I thought I might sneak sub 4:40 but then sometimes when the route shows it’s flat you were in woods with tree roots and slippy rocks so not able to get a decent pace.
I’d started late and started catching people towards halfway.
Was starting to feel it a bit around 38k but knew there was only about an hour to go. The last few K’s were on a path which helped a bit but running fast on tired legs and hard concrete is quite painful.
Anyway, scraped round in a long 4:52 so happy to get under 5 hours. And the nav errors probably would have got me towards 4:40.
It was only a small field but only about 6 of us broke 5 hours and I managed to blag first M50 I’ll take that, I think I’ve only ran 50k in a week about 3 times since March.
Winner was a local young lad that did 4:05 apparently and won by a long way.
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