Tigy’s Blog

The course had some great trails in it, but also some long stretches of dirt/gravel road that really dragged on.

It is fair to say it is the hardest run I have ever had in my life, by the time I crossed the finish line I had nothing left at all in me, my legs were wobbly and as soon as I stopped I started seeing spots. Completely and utterly exhausted!

Given my lack of build up I found setting a pace really hard, my injury in my leg didn’t help and although the first 40 minutes were pretty sweet the last 20 really killed me!

What did I learn?
1. That the difference between your base-line and peak fitness is huge. Building up and peaking for a race correctly is just so important if you want to do well.

2. That unless you’ve been doing some good conditioning leading up to a race it’s bloody hard to gauge how fast (or slow) to go.

3. I need to get back into training again!

Another month before the next one so I’ve given myself a training plan which I hope will get me right. The next week is complete rest through to Sunday or Monday, then running 3-4 times over a short distance the next week and then build the week after that until I’m back up to my peak distance!

There were two photos taken at the finish, I’ve published the better of the two. To the other one someone quoted, “If you were a horse my dad would have shot you…” Sort of sums up how I felt