Not a pleasant night for me ... again. I'm afraid the curse of the Hysterical Village struck me early on with a twinge of an adductor muscle. It sort of eased off through the second hour but in favouring it (or at least I believe that was the cause) I aggravated a niggle in my hip that got progressively worse to the point where I couldn't even walk without pain.
Having walked this event home for 10 hours in the past, having gotten injured early on, I didn't have much to gain so, by midnight, having gone through many adjusted schedules in my mind and talked them over with crew, I pulled the pin with a meagre 46 km (I think) having been at 22 km after 2 hours. Definitely went out a little quickly in the first half an hour but I think it's that south corner on the anti-clockwise loop that gets me every time.
As for my crew, can't say enough thanks to Keith & Carol who came up especially to look after me. I'm sure if I'd said i was going just walk around there for the rest of the night it would have been no problem.
Seems that the 12 hour event here is becoming a bit of a millstone for me. One from three isn't so good (the 'one' being my first event there), even though my outings over three and six hours have been good. Not sure where to go from here.
Anyway, I've had the benefit of not taking too much out of myself and after two days off will pick back up with the 6ft training. Two hard weeks to come with a steady/soft week to follow before a little taper.
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