Sports you play as an adult

Hursty

Bombed out at 82 miles in around 14h when the wheels came off, I was feeling good until then but don’t have the minerals to walk/crawl the last few miles!

Massive kudos to the people who finish it, some people practically walk it all in 30 hours, but I prefer to run it even if I blow up.

Dubman

Hursty
Good effort Hursty. My mate struggled to do it on a bike in a day. Was you just outside Brighton when you finished.

Mad_Cyril

Hursty Great work Hursty lad

Amps

Hursty Very impressive mate!

303abuser

Hursty That’s a fantastic effort, well done. Sucks to not be able to carry on, but there’s so much to get right and it’s pretty easy to get it wrong. You did something most people couldn’t attempt, lots to feel good about there.

Along_the_Wire

Hursty ooof, fucking hell. Fair play. The climbing too…

rhouses

Hursty Massive congratulations, Hursty. A true feat.

I did that route to Portsmouth for a field trip, and remember that coach ride being long AF.

Smallman1

Top effort Hursty!

Well played sir!

Millsy

Nice one Hursty. Great effort mate.

benson

Great effort

-si-

Not sure “bombed out” is the correct term, hursty. Anyone running 82 miles in one go is an absolute machine. Fair play, mate…

bosstrabs

Sports I enjoy are a bit of 5-a-side, occasionally some badminton or squash, and ruining Smallman’s life with a continual stream of shitposts in response to everything he says/does.

Smallman1

bosstrabs and ruining Smallman’s life with a continual stream of shitposts in response to everything he says/does.

Wouldn’t have it any other way Dave!

Dubman

Every person I speak to who have done it on a bike or on foot always mention how hilly it is.

Millsy

I played in a, ahem, ‘masters’ basketball tournament this weekend. Four games over two days has nearly killed me so how anyone runs 80+ miles in one go is far beyond my understanding.

Dubman

Millsy
Completing a marathon is a big achievement for anybody. Doing over 80 miles off road on uneven ground is a different level.

Mad_Cyril

Millsy
Is Masters another word for older gentlemen Mills?

Millsy

Mad_Cyril yep

303abuser

Ran my first trail race Saturday. Went pretty well except for it being cut in half due to heat (apparently an older guy actually went down on the course and passed away later). That awfulness aside, I finished 10th out of 180 or so and 2nd in my age group. It was a lot of fun, so I’m going to sign up for a 25km trail race in October. Should be substantially cooler and I’ll be better prepared.

jonattonyeah

303abuser

Heat is no joke. It gets HOT routinely inland from where I am. A fellow, who had ultramarathon experience, got disoriented along the Redwood ridge area last year. Wandered off the trail in 106 F heat. When they found the poor guy, his GPS showed he was stumbling about in circles before finding his final deathbed against a tree. Real shame. Usually a popular hiking trail, somebody would have been around to help on better days, but not in heat like that. Congrats on the finish, 303, but be safe out there.

Dubman

303abuser
Good effort at our young age. I’m sure Hursty could give you some tips seeing as it’s his thing also.

Hursty

303abuser nice one 303, glad you enjoyed it and achieved a great result! Nothing beats being out on the trails.

Sorry to hear about the chap who kopped it.

Steep climbs smash everyone, the more you do in training the faster you get but they are still hard!

303abuser

jonattonyeah Thanks, I was really surprised by it. It’s been way cooler than normal this year, so training for the heat has been really difficult and Saturday was the hottest day we’ve had so far. I was running at a reasonable pace, legs felt great, heart rate was low, but I kept feeling gassed at the top of the steep climbs. I feel terrible for him and his family, he seemed very well liked in the running community.

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