I do not generally like been told what to do at even at the best of times. Back in 2020 Covid was hitting and our Government was coming out with a lot of rules. I understood most of the reasoning behind them but it was still tough to stomach.
I was classed an essential worker and still had to go to work but was locked down within 50km when at home for a time. We had it pretty easy compared to other bigger cities in Australia and around the world. But still I just like getting stuff done not hanging around at home.
I had been toying with the idea for trying to run a long event to really test myself to see what I was capable of.
Covid was going to stuff this idea. All events were cancelled but I was not going to let that stop me I would just make my own course and do it by myself.
I had started to train a bit longer and slower, probably too much as I usually do and did something to the back of my knee. It needed almost a month off before it was good enough to run again.
I should trained and built more but as there was not much else to do so I just decided to go for it one weekend.
I was underprepared but that just fired me up more. I was walking lots at work this run was still doable it might just take me a bit longer as I would probably just have to walk more.
The plan was 4x 25km loops from my house as a base into the nearby nature reserve.
The first 50 kilometers went pretty well just walking the hills and jogging the downs and flat sections.
At the end of 75km I felt cooked and could not run anymore luckily I had walking poles which really helped as my legs started to go. After a sit down and some proper food I felt better, like I could do this but that feeling soon disappeared when I got back out there.
I had started at 2am in the morning and was hoping to be done in 16 hours but as it started to get dark again and I still had lots to do with only my head lamp for company.
The last 10km was so hard I needed another break but with his all over body ache, I was worried I would just call it quits if I went back inside the house. So I started having more rests in the bush just sitting down on what ever I could find, my only motivation at this point was I if I could just finish I would not have to do this ever again.
I would love to have another try one day but I would want to train better and be fitter than back then, so until then it will just be the shorter 5km parkruns for me.
Covid was a terrible time for all of us, even in Europe, and I'll never forget what the politicians did to us back then.
But 100km is an incredible achievement to be very proud of, in my best times I managed a half marathon.
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A half marathon is a great achievement too
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Excellent determination
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