RUNNING 4:38:00 [3] 23.4 km (11:53 / km) +1390m 9:10 / km
shoes: Inov8 x claw 275
LAMM day 2 chasing start. Had to get up at 5am and wake everyone up piping which knackered me a bit-got done lit photos though. Realised the night before they’d be coaching us part of it and then forcing us to go up the last hill before Tarbert. It was a grind up a hill to the first control and we caught up number 8 pretty quickly and were going well and feeling good. Decided to try go for it and hang on at the end but fucked up number one a belter. We were in a group and we just ran past the control and went 50m down a slope and had to come back. Tricky nav in the mist but then it cleared and we pushed on up next climb. Got told that 8,10,12,13 and 14 had all overtaken us which spurred us on. Our blisters felt so sore on the downhills and countouring and so we decided to go up and over on the next route choice to try and minimise pain and we over took 10 12 and 13 down to the shuttle bus.
Sitting down on the coach for 10 minutes and then having to start again up a 450m climb killed us but gave Philip a gel and we pushed on. Countouring round to the next one we were in a back with team 8 and 10 and we managed to burn them off on the last climb. Ended up 8th which we were happy with. Annoying thing was I felt great the whole day but my feet let me down have quite a few blisters on my feet so I’m wincing taking small steps but it’s all good.
Amazing event loved all of it and so class to have this as my first MM. Gutted when Martin announced it’s the last LAMM ever.