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Lon Las Ultra Revisited 2019..... Lon Last?

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BE ADVISED... this blog made me work for it almost as much as the race did. On reading it back I came to the conclusion its because nothing really happened. I planned it, things went right and wrong, I persevered and I finished. So its turned more into a journal of progress than an everyday story of ultra folk and their interactions with the normal people. Or as my wife Harriet put it, "you've written a travel guide" - ouch, tough crowd! That notwithstanding, I was surprised how many people had read LLU Blog #1 as prep for their 2019 race, and so I'll publish this regardless in the hope that at least it helps some people toying with the idea of taking it on in 2021. You have been warned - this could be 30 minutes of your life you won't get back. K Spoiler alert.... After the fourteenth time I’d joked aside the question I started to think they may have a point. Why was I going back to do the Lon Las Ultra again? When I first (tentatively) raised the subj