303abuser Nice one! hope you enjoy it. I’ve roped the Mrs in to crew for me, there are checkpoints also. The main thing for me is staying hydrated, its going to be 20 celcius so I will be sweating buckets, other than that keep fueling and moving.

      Hursty That’s helpful, I’m prepping my wife for the possibility of doing that lol. 20 will be warm for sure, I’m always feeling like I’m low on sodium. Getting the hydration and nutrition balance right seems like a black art to me. I’ve been doing everything up to 22 km fasted so far, but that might be close to the edge of that strategy, so I’ve been spending some time trying to figure it out.

      You should GoPro a live stream so we can watch you suffer. 😅

          Hursty Nice, what number are you? Can I ask what training plan you followed too? The 50 km race I’m considering looks like a lot of climbing, so I’m thinking of a 16 week marathon plan, just on hills instead of flat ground, but I’m not sure if that’s the best strategy.

              303abuser I used an app called TrainAsOne which is an AI powered training schedule, i’ve found it to be great, you can also use it for free, however its only £6 a month for the pro version.

              Basically you enter your race goals and it generates a plan for you, if you miss a session or do something else on day it automatically recalculates which means its very flexible over a set plan.

              The fitness tests are straightforward as well, 3.2km flat out, 6 min flat out and perceived effort runs.

              354.

                  Mad_Cyril Lol I’ve discovered the longest I can run hungover is about 15 km, after that, shit goes south quick.

                    Hursty Thanks, I’ll check that out. Sounds similar to my half plan through my garmin watch, but it doesn’t have any longer distances. Good luck this weekend, I hope you have a good experience.

                      Hursty
                      Cap well’ n’ truly doffed my friend. I take you’ve studied the terrain.

                          Dubman never been to any of it, completely winging it 😆

                            Hursty good luck mate, that’s a hell of a challenge. Even more so “making use” of the hotel with the mrs after the run!

                              Hursty We need to work out a drinking game for all of us following along at home.

                              Best of luck, rather you than me.

                                Smallman1 Where did you go again, Smalls? This was the prep school, not the secondary school in Dicker… how did you guys fare against Eastbourne College?

                                  Sounds horrific Hurst. You’re probably going die.

                                  @Hursty How’d it go? When I checked in it looked like you either ran the fastest time ever or more likely had to drop out after running an unimaginable distance. Hope you’re alive and such. 🙂

                                  Met Hursty at Sasha at Fabric last year, if that’s my one memory of him, by Jove it’s a good one.