Lakeland 100 2017
Lakeland 100, July 2017, Round 4 Well I'm a shell of the man i was 6pm Friday. Tough day in the office but Lakeland 100 done and dusted in 32 hours, my silver target time. I could have been quicker but some tricky conditions underfoot in places and a poor footwear choice meant i slowed for safe passage (me and Harriet are hitting the Pennine Way for a few days from Thursday 😱 so i was under strict orders to finish in one piece). As it was i must have been on my bum a dozen times when my feet just slipped from under me. Lakeland mud appears to have some sort of superglue component as finally it took scrubbing with a nailbrush to get my legs clean (ouch). Bumped into Gary Chapman, Iain Murray and Peter Smith at teh start waiting for the operatic send off. They were all three exuding nerves, which added to my own. This may have been my fourth start but I was still next to useless stood on that start line. Pushed hard for the first three sections (not conventional wisdom