26th April 2025 - DNF
Had a great block of training. Recced some of the LL100 course. Had a recce of Y3Ps with the Cavill crew. Everything was going so well. Easter in Eskdale. A few good runs leading into taper week. Y3Ps got timed out at 17miles. My first DNF and it’s a hard one to take. Setbacks should always be a learning experience. I don’t know what I take from this, which has left me despondent. I gave it my all and missed the 3:40 cutoff by a handful of seconds. The reality is that I’m not quick enough for a race like this over this terrain. It’s quite demoralising but it’s a fact. It was always going to be tight but a fail is a fail. The question is do I come back next year for another go? Another year older. How do I get quicker? Stronger climbing? Stronger descending? It would need more time in the mountains and I’m not sure if I have time to give. The alternative is I let it eat away at me and never try to fix it. Probably says a lot about how I’m wired up. So 13 weeks until LL00. This fail...