Race Report:The Lap
Guest blog by Sam to start..... My thoughts on ‘Our Lap 2022’ A huge thanks to Lydia for letting me join her on ‘The Lap’ and contribute to her blog. The ‘Lap’ was a 47.79mile (76.91km) jog, run, hike, crawl, climb ultra-Marathon in the stunning lake district. I will leave Lydia to tell you the whole story (as she does this so well), I will simply share some of my post event thoughts with you. I loved ‘The Lap’, I hated ‘The Lap’, I would thoroughly recommend ‘The Lap’, but I will not be doing ‘The Lap’ again! I’ve never felt so stiff, sore or determined to finish anything in my life I promise to never roll my eyes again when I hear that a footballer has a groin strain I found out that I prefer to climb up hills than down (how strange is that?) At an age greater than 45 but less than 50, I discovered that I like running It was amazing to see people of all ages, shapes, sizes and abilities take on this challenge The support shown to every single entrant by the event organisers and vol