The pain cave
It's the day after myself and Sam F completed our first (and according to Sam at the moment, our last! ) 100k ultramarathon We had previously completed a 70k ultra around Lake Windermere in a time of 19 hours 56 minutes, so my reasoning was that it wasn't much further. The first aim was always to finish. Finishing anything like this is a massive achievement in itself, whether you run or crawl across the line. The cut off times for this were such that you could walk the whole thing and still finish, a generous 34 hours were give to complete. Give our time for the Lap, I had a secondary quiet goal in my head of sub 24 hours but it was a definately secondary aim. We had also decided that we would do the continuous version, meaning that once started we would keep going until finished. There was an option to do the first loop, sleep overnight and then do the second loop, but I had concerns about seizing up overnight and not being able to move the second day! Sam agree...