This is a 24 hour trail race held in Derbyshire, a huge event open to teams and solo runners on a 10k lap course. I was nursing a Glute injury but fortunately some others in my team were also afflicted by illness and niggles and we were there largely as a social meet up anyway with some running thrown in. At first I was very doubtful that I would make my planned 50k contribution but soon discovered that if I ran incredibly slowly my hip stopped hurting – this had the added effect that while trundling around my night time laps and using poles i was repeatedly congratulated by passing runners who thought I was doing it solo.
The whole event is very well organised, with plenty of space for the hundreds of tents, sufficient numbers of portable chemical toilet cubicles (what are they called again?) and some nice wooded areas for the kids to happily go feral after being abandoned by running parents. It was bloody hot, though!
Nicola Dunn