Town to Tring - 40 miler. What a day

Hi again,

Its the day after the Town to Tring 40 mile run and I feel pretty good. My legs ache abit and knees and hips are a little stiff if I sit down for too long but overall I feel pretty good.

I had a great day and managed to get a time which I am really pleased with. I started the race running with this girl who is off to the MDS in April (very envious), so it was a nice and slow first hour which I am sure helped later on.

The first checkpoint came around after 1hr 45mins, each checkpoint was about 10 miles apart. I reached the second checkpoint, which was halfway, just after 3 hours so I made up some decent time.

The first half of the race included a Jungle CD - Hospital Mix 6.

My plan for the next 10 miles was to keep up the good pace as everything felt good and see what happened. So i stuck on Anjunbeats Vol.6 - Disc 1 which helped distract for the next hour or so.

I got to checkpoint 3 after 4.45 hours of running so I was well on track for coming in under 7 hours. I necked another viper bar, got rid of some weight out of my rucksack (thanks Meredith) and then ran on.

To help keep the pace up it was hardcore time. On came Clubland Extreme Hardcore 5 Disc 3 mixed by Breeze. Definately the best tune of the day was a banging hardcore remix of the Sugerbabes About you Now, oh yes.

I finished after 6 hours 18 minutes of running in 17th place (out of 60). Very pleased with that.

A few days off now to let my legs rebuild then on with the training for the Grantham 29 miler at the end of Feb. I reckon a sub 4 hour finish on this is the target.

Me at the end...

Cheers for all your support.

Johnny x