Subject: V S Update - MVT final call, Curry, Mcr results, MDS day 4
Sent: 11 April 2014 01:17
The
shortest ever V S Update:
Meanwood
Valley Trail
A few
changes have been updated on the website www.valleystriders.org.uk/trail14m.htm or www.valleystriders.org.uk/trail14m.doc
Note change of phone number for Mick Loftus.
Anyone on
the list and not confirmed, please do so to [email protected]
Anyone
not on the list but able to help, please come to Leos or Meanwood Park and
support the race!
Curry
next Tuesday
Details
on website, order by Sunday 10pm
Manchester
Marathon additional results
144 James
Tarran 2:56:49 2:56:32
1466
Steve Dixon 3:39:32 3:38:55
Marathon
Des Sables progress
Richard
has emailed a report for day 4 (Wednesday), but actually this stage has a time
limit of 36 hours, so when he arrived just after midnight (Thursday morning) he
had a “rest” day. As he says, Friday is “just” a marathon.
Hi
everybody,
Day 4 81
km, 16 hrs 55
That was
the hardest day I have had in my life, it was 35c by 8:30 am, by mid morning
was baking hot and stayed like that until about 4 pm The stage was a majority
of sand- imagine walking on soft sand on the beach on holiday for 40 miles!! It
was relentless, oh and throw in a couple of mountains that were a hands and
feet rock climb and roped because it was a long way back down. I ran out of
water for 2.5km early afternoon and the checkpoint was a welcome sight I can
tell you. I suffered for that and had to have almost an hour in the bivouac to
recover enough to carry on for the next 40km. Blisters were painful especially
but after 30 mins, you get used to the pain and concentrate on putting one foot
in front of the other. Once the heat died down I picked up the pace a bit and
it was quite surreal run/walking for 7 hours in the desert in the dark. The
finish camp was visible from about 6km away and that was a tough section.
Just a
marathon to go!!
Please note
that reports are also on Valley Striders A C Facebook https://www.facebook.com/groups/291402584033/
(original post by John Hallas)
Finally,
good luck to everyone running London!