Fell running long 4:40:00 [3] 40.5 km (6:55 / km) +1820m 5:39 / km
shoes: Innov8 Xtalon 2017
Initial plans to go to Devon fell through so ventured home, decided to have a pop at the Mcwilliams round, a new-ish long distance round in the Cheviots. Thought I may as well have a pop at the record I went off hard. Made it from Wooler to Kirk Yeholm on the St Cuthberts Way happy enough in about 100mins, before turning south towards Cheviot along the Pennine Way. Ran the first 2hours solidly before having my drink climbi g up towards the Shill. Slowed quite a bit here but was still through 30km in under 3hours. Started to feel very dehydrated here but made it on to the Chevy route at adecent pace still sat in the river for a few minutes drinking as much as I could and never really gotgoing again. Crawled my way up Hedgehope amd resigned myself to just finishing it but once on the way down everything went very tight, my shoulders, hips amd lower back, hamstrings and calves to the point were I could only walk a few minutes at a time between lying down. It was weird, the legs and body weren't tired or crampy just really sore. Managed to get signal and arrange a lift to bail out 10miles short. I will be back!
Would normally have trudged on through it but didn't want to ruin myself ahead of the relays
Fell running warm up/down 20:00 [3] 2.5 km (8:00 / km) +30m 7:33 / km
shoes: Innov8 Xtalon 2017
Jog to the start beforehand.
Shuffle of the hill at the end