Unintentional Ultra Runner

“You’ve got to get up every morning with determination if you’re going to go to bed with satisfaction.” – George Lorimer So here we are nearly back from a Pandemic and still tackling all things challenging in the world of Ultra Running. Before having a break from the blog, the plan to revisit the 2020 Amazon Jungle Ultra again in 2020 after the 2019 challenge but alas things had to change (damn that pesky virus!) The intention was to get back to Peru and then follow it up in Feb 2021 with a similar event across the Arctic Circle but despite deferring the 2020 Amazon to 2021 it didn’t seem practical. Holiday time alone wouldn’t be sufficient to cover the that needed to race both events. Fortunately for me, those amazing folk at Beyond the Ultimate have agreed to let me shift the Amazon by another year so it’ll be 2022 when I next see the amazingness of the Jungle again. That means that the focus right now is to get prepared for the Ice Ultra but similarly to the Amazon last year...

“It doesn’t matter how slow you go so long as you don’t stop” Confucius. 17/02: After a weekend of resting sore knees and ankle injury from last week, the main focus was on seeing how things played out and if all went well tonight would’ve be a slightly longer one.   Pretty sporadic rainfall during the day with   blustery winds didn’t bode well for the session but as luck had it, the rain stopped and the clouds cleared a little. Heading out into a bright evening was only disrupted by the wind but hey, ya can’t have it all. We started OK but I was aware of my left ankle more than my knees so I’m guessing the weekend rest break worked in part.   Heading out on the route we’ve been doing for a few weeks seemed like it’d be dark way before the distance I hoped to cover but as it happens we actually got 2 miles further in daylight than last week.   The trails were pretty grim. Mud mud & even more mud was pretty much the menu for most of it ...