Race Day Part Eight

This was the start of a long ascent that I ran most of.

Eventually there was a sharp descent before I came out into civilisation.

I could have done with a curry....

By road, it is 5 miles until you get to the motorway but....

Half a mile along a busy A road, some of which had no grass verge to run along, we would get to....

The bridge over that motorway....

As you can see, dusk was upon me, and it would be about half an hour before nightfall.  I was convinced that I could get to the next Aid station but I had forgotten to note the distance of this stage and I was unsure how far I had travelled this stage as well.

Time is running out on whether I could get to the next Aid Station before needing to get torches out.

Horses...shortly after this I came across a bench, and here I stopped to add a mid-layer and get the head and hand torch out.

The last photo on race day.  At this Aid Station I had a cup of tea with a large spoonful of sugar - the most wonderful thing ever.  I am now 14 miles away from the end.

I bumped into the "pedestrian" lady who had taken some of my advice to run whilst it was cooler ahead of nightfall. Hence she had remained ahead of me up despite me running, and again left the Aid station well ahead of me.