Wet, very wet and tired, but I got there ... 100 miles :-)

See! Wet and mud!

Wet!  First run in the morning was wet!  Dog was wet! I was wet!  See photo of wet with slippery mud. 7 miles of wet, wet , wet.



More wet and mud!



 Afternoon it cleared :-) dried all my clothes :-) :-) Started running after dry weather has been around for hours, 10 minutes into my run and ... wet!  I get wet all by myself too!  To top it all, a big bus sprays me with more wet! Wet, wet, wet! 10ish miles of wet (but no mud) and I'm so hungry!  Everything is wet ... wet, wet, wet and it's dark and I'm cold and I'm hungry! NO it's not just wet, I'm drenched!



A variation - wet dog walking in mud and wet temporarily ceased to remind you how nice it was when it wasn't wet ... before the wet starts again!



But 4 miles left - 4 miles to get to a hundred miles. Sigh! I can't stop now, I might never do this again.  It's wet outside, and darker, and colder but most of all it's wet .... but I'm so tired, I want to go to sleep, I've had a nice dinner. It's warm inside and so cold outside ... and wet!!!  But it's only 4 miles ... sigh!  But I'm not putting wet clothes back on, and I will find a pair of older 'dry' running shoes ...

 

... I did it :-)  About 4.5 miles.  And it was dry too!  Although dodging the puddles in the dark with my headtorch was hard going (not all our roads have streetlights). Total rounded up to 101 miles.

100 miles in a week - I'm very pleased with that.  Once I thought I might do it, I decided that I would try and do it early on in case I developed and injury or fell sick. I've bagged it, 100 miles in a week :-) 

Assuming nothing goes wrong, I'm pretty sure that Gary of Local Adventures will win as he seems to be taking the mileage in his stride - very impressive.   Kevin of ...musing...  has little ones, that's exhausting on it's own!  I remember how hard having little ones was, teenagers can be difficult but little ones ...  brilliant fun though, but so are teenagers (sometimes).  I'm very proud of all three of my sons despite the moaning - grumpy middle age man that I am :-(  Well, maybe I'm not that grumpy.

Me? I'm certainly not stopping but I might slow down a bit, see how I feel. I don't use my age as an excuse but I do find if I'm injured it does seem to take a little longer for my body to repair itself. Am I competitive? My 13 year old certainly is! I don't think that I'm that competitive, the goals I have set so far have been my own. Like Kevin I'm really surprised at my mileage so far - I never dreamed I could run so far in one week.  I guess I haven't run that fast but that's okay.

Total so far, 100 miles (over 160 km)  :-)