Pee stop – almost normal! Ok, wait a bit longer. Started cheering on everyone still out there which is great to lift spirits. About an hour or so later I woke up and felt a little better. I drank about a litre of salty soup, ate half a loaf of bread and then went to sleep on the floor of the tent thinking that I would not be out there again. However – sleep, as any ultra runner will attest, is an amazing thing. And the long walk around the track back to the crew tent was quite emotional with plenty of time to think about everything that had gone into this race. While my vitals were all fine the basic advice from the doctor was ‘stop’. There were others already on the beds with the same problem. Also, (apologies for too much information) my pee was steadily getting darker and after 13 or so hours it was very, very red and I was getting quite concerned. Had to bless the crew tent with a huge vomit – which I hoped would help but I realised it was too late for whatever was causing the pain. Stomach was getting steadily more painful as the heat of the afternoon wore on. Once again Marcus worked on freeing up muscles in the chest and back. However, by hour five running suddenly got very hard as my chest started to tighten. We might have to drag him to all our events from now on! Got through the marathon in about 3:50 and this was still cruise mode and happy. Ankle gave me some pain after only hour which wasn’t welcome – physio and crew master Marcus Daws dug in there with a good deal of pressure and it really did the world of good. Made sure my heart rate was mid 120’s for the first few hours. Start at 10am, was fairly near the back but was totally fine with that. A lot of the problems from Albi were copies of problems from Taiwan last year – so there seems to be a pattern. I know I can and I’m learning more each time I fail. I say ‘yet’ because even though the last thing I want to do now is do something like this again I know I need to at some point because it’s gonna bug the hell out of me until I nail one.
#Andy bernard blisters how to#
However, it turns out, I haven’t actually figured out how to execute this style of event yet. I had trained and focused so hard on it and felt everything was bang on – I and woke up feeling like ‘today is the day!!’ on Saturday morning – starting the race 100% ready.
That’s pretty much the race report in a nutshell, you can stop reading if you like.Īll the ducks in a row was the focus in the build up to this event. And, three days later, I am still totally gutted about it. So how did the race go for me? Well, it was a bit of a disaster.
And it was another opportunity to catch up and run with my good mate from over the ditch Mr Stephen Redfern (he is now 5-2 in victories over me – I have some work to do) Fiona, Dawn, Emma, Wayne and Graeme were all familiar faces from Taiwan last year while Kim joined us for the big dance and it was an absolute pleasure to meet her – and hear some wonderful stories of her endurance running feats. Add to that, running is such a solo sport that you rarely get to be a part of a team. It is such a huge honour to represent your country, especially doing something you love.
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