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Gareth’s (My crew from the North Downs Way 50) take on the other side of the Ultra, its the crew who make sure we are fueled for the runs.

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The Crew’s Perspective

Last weekend Anthony ran his first Ultra, the North Downs Way 50. It was a magnificent achievement and one he trained hard for. I acted as his Support Crew and wanted to give “an alternative” review of the race from a non runners perspective. I will write a separate post over the weekend with some Crewing do’s and don’ts and post a link at the bottom. It was all going to be in one post but it was turning into War & Peace

Our planning started some months ago and having the benefit of living close to the North Downs we were able to run a few sections of the Downs (several times) in the months leading up to the race. Ant experimented with his nutrition and we looked for parts of the route where it was possible to go wrong. The NDW is really well sign posted but as we found out, if you rely purely on signs…

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Race Review

Quick update, North Downs Way 50 all done

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Just a quick update, I will do a full race report with all the photos tomorrow or Monday.

My immediate feeling after the run are this; extremely happy and absolutely shattered. My time for the run was 11:20:36 and it clocked in at just under 52 miles as I went wrong a couple of times. I am not going to type anymore as constructing sentences is too much hard work for my brain.

Me with my Centurion Running finishers medal.

 

Nutrition, Training Updates

The night before: Last minute preperations

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Well its been a fairly relaxed day, getting my last bits and pieces together for the Ultra tomorrow. I have bagged up all my nutrition into separate bags for each aid station, labelled them so and will be giving these to Gareth tomorrow who is kindly being my crew for the day.

My gear all ready for the early start in the morning
My aid station bags all labelled ready for Gareth to hand to me as needed

It’s not all been smooth sailing though, we did go down to Farnham this afternoon to register and collect my race number (the idea being its one less thing to do in the morning and means I can get some precious more minutes sleep) but upon getting there it seems the numbers haven’t turned up yet so all I could do was hand in my disclaimer, I will have to get my number in the morning (a tweet or email wouldn’t have gone a miss!)

However, in the grand scheme of things, if this is the worst that happens then I can live with it.

I will be tweeting and getting some pictures as and when throughout the race, so if you want to keep up with what is going on then follow @ultraplodder

Right now for some sleep…….A full race review will be out on Sunday or Monday, as well as a recipe for the Chia seed flapjacks that I am using in the race.

Training Updates

5 days to go……

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Today was the last longish run before the Ultra, an easy paced 10 mile run. The only other running I will be doing in the coming week will be a 3-4 mile run on Tuesday and a 2-3 mile run on Wednesday.

As I am only doing the 50 mile run I will not be able to get my hands on the NDW100 24hour belt buckle, but there is always next year….

I was looking at some of the statistics that I have built up since I started running properly in Feb 2011 and thought I would share them with everyone, so here they are:

February 2011 to August 2012

Miles Run: 1280.02, that’s like going from Lands End to John o’Groats (838 miles on the roads) and still having enough to get back to London!!

Total Time: 205:05:24.74, or 8 and half days

Total Calories: 161740, or 330 Big Mac’s

Total Ascent: 71389..341 Meters, or the equivalent of climbing Mount Everest 8 times.

I am feeling ready for the challenge ahead and I think it has helped for my mental focus having the Olympics on, all those amazing people doing amazing things, you just can’t help but be influenced by them.

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11 days to go…..

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Crossing the stepping stones at the bottom of box hill will be about mile 24 into the run

11 days to go until the big run, I have ordered a load of nutritional products (gels and electrolyte tablets) and will be getting my chefs hat on to make some “real food” in the form of bite sized flapjacks. I am not only doing the run for “fun”, but for a worthy cause in the guise of the Special Care Baby Fund, who support the special care unit that looked after my boys. Thank you to all who have donated so far and if you haven’t and can spare a couple of quid please visit my just giving page: http://www.justgiving.com/AnthonyClark2012

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