Chester 100 2021 my personal journey (unabridged)

Some of my personal updates during The Chester 100!

It was a fantastic day.

Although (spoiler alert) I didn’t make it to the finish line (this time), I learnt so much and pushed my body through more pain and discomfort than I thought possible.

A truly enlightening experience😇

I write this post after 1 full nights sleep under my belt.

I am already feeling much better. I’m still hobbling and very achy but healing well👍🏼

I made the decision not to continue at the check point 6, 87 miles/140km.
Although my gps recorded 92 miles/148km (This was due to a few errors in navigation 🤦🏼‍♂️). Due mainly to very large blisters on the balls of both feet and toes.

While I had plenty of other pains, such as severe chafing in the ‘private areas’, back pains and lots of severe tightness in the legs, the overriding pain was in my feet and that was slowing my pace to a crawl (slightly less than 1 mph 😢).

The final 2 miles to check point 6 took me an excruciating and gruelling two and a half hours to complete.

Once at the check point I cleaned myself up and had a tiny bit of hope that maybe a firstadier could fix my feet and send me on my way.

Unfortunately no one was really available at the time so I did my best to clean and dry my feet, but as soon as I stood up again I knew it wasn’t going to be enough .

At this point sadly I was completely convinced that I did not have the speed needed to complete the final 15 miles in the 7 remaining hours before the cutoff.

3 Days later:
I’m healing much quicker than expected. I’m now able to walk past people without getting strange looks😂. My legs are still quite tired and fatigued but I’m able to walk normally and the chafing had pretty much gone completely🥳 The remaining general aches and pains are also now almost gone. I predict I will be running again by the weekend, albeit gently 😇.

Another incredible experience. I learnt so much and feel so blessed to get these opportunities to truly test and push my limits.



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