If nothing else, none of our customers need ever feel intimidated by our shop as they know they can all complete a marathon quicker than at least one of the staff! After the first lap my body settled into the running and before I knew it, I was at the 8 mile mark, from then on it was all Sankra Casino self transcendence as I was going further than I had run in nearly 4 years. Unfortunatley I couldn’t hear it as I was at the back of 750 runners but I felt his peaceful, meditative presence and as I crossed the start line, I saw his light flooded smile. When I was finally feeling myself again, I went out one morning full of enthusiasm, over did it and promptly got the first serious running injury of my life!
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The three-loop bike course is fairly flat and is followed by the four lap run course. Despite the huge number of runners, the 4 waved starts and wide course meant that it mostly didn’t feel too congested, apart from at a couple of narrower bottlenecks which even then weren’t too bad. At 10.00 the gun exploded and wet sand under foot I jogged off to see the fast, serious runners sprint like gazelles across the beach. Steve thought he heard a distance of 220km being called, but that could not have been, I had tracked all the way and was positive that we had only made 219 and a lap or so, the holy grail of 220km was not achieved!
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- LAter on Sean in the bike shop told me that the cable probably got stuck.
- Then we had water at all the water stations.
- Finally on my bike, everything went along very well in the first lap.
- However, unlike most people (such as 99.99% of us), he went down to Dover shortly after and spent only a few weeks swimming in the harbor, perhaps doing one six-hour swim, his longest swim ever up to that time!
- After a few miles in this sorry state I bumped into my friend Karteek (an experienced multi-day runner and English Channel swimmer) who was also running the race.
- The 12 hour leader board showed Ross with 122.4km (76.06mls) Ankers, 120.4 km (74.8mls), with Wykes in third 114.8km (71.33ml) just a lap ahead of Heffron 114.4km (71.08 mls).
Instead of being one of the faster runners on the course I was now one of the slowest. I was laughing because the idea of running 47 miles when I was already struggling in the first few miles felt crazy. The idea kept gnawing away at me until I felt that I should, in Sri Chinmoy’s words, “dare to try” – for the experience if nothing else! However, I met a few other people who also wanted to run this race and somehow I got caught up in the inspiration. After running a marathon in one of my best times, I was talking to an ultra-running friend.
Not far to go now; Boris was preparing himself to get in the water to accompany Angikar the last 500 yards to the small secluded beach we could just see with the aid of a powerful spotlight on the boat. Singing The Invocation on a boat in the English Channel, I could feel Sri Chinmoy’s presence come more to the fore, and Angikar later told us that it had helped him considerably. It is around here that swimmers often tire, and the fatigue of the body and the resistance of the mind start to become strong. During the whole distance he had been swimming at 48 strokes per minute. So when we give energy drinks, etc. to Angikar we have to lower the bottle over the side of the boat on a string, and he must eat or drink while treading water. Then Angikar walked back into the water, dived in, and started his epic journey.
The route crossed the wide uninhabited plains of Western Australia before passing through the cities of Adelaide, Melbourne, Canberra and Sydney. Vilas from Bristol, England started in Perth on 17 March and finished in Sydney nearly four weeks later. Like this, eventually we covered 7 miles and for periods I was jogging fairly comfortably, albeit slowly.
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I made my way to Weston College where other runners congregated to change. When I was young I was highly competitive, and then I made the decision that I was to be one of those runners that ran just to keep fit, to supplement by footballing ambitions. The shots above show the run through the streets and some of the faster runners as well as the race start.
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For those unfamiliar with a 24hour race, the idea is to cover a fixed loop that has been accurately measured, in this case a 400 metre track, and see how many laps you can complete in the 24 hours. He duly broke, or set, completely new marks for all the recognized ultra distances from 30 miles up to 24 hours, with the exception of 100 miles, which he fell some 5 miles short of. But, after an eventful few weeks, Vilas was able to complete the full distance finishing in Sydney. I’ll admit that miles 15 to 20 were tough, but once I knew I only had two laps to go it was all joy.
- Despite the difficulties over the last hour, John still managed to deliver 7.6 km, the last 3laps of which Steve and I walked with him.
- Wykes, like many of the other runners, seems galvanized that there is now under an hour to go and looks the stronger of the two.
- I was laughing because the idea of running 47 miles when I was already struggling in the first few miles felt crazy.
- Of course everyone took off across the start line at a cracking pace.
- On the next aid station I wasked for water, they said “it’s water”.
- Vilas from Bristol, England started in Perth on 17 March and finished in Sydney nearly four weeks later.
The medical crew too, all too aware of what Geoff has been trying to achieve are monitoring from a distance, but seemed happy he is in good hands. We will still put the time forward for ratification, as we believe it is the first time an 80 year old has run 100 miles in a continuous effort. At the 24hour hooter everyone stops and drops the little marker they have been carrying the last few minutes so the final part lap can be recorded.
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However, after completing both races my body was depleted and was horrendously stiff. An experienced multi-day and 3100-mile runner, Ushika, invited me to join him on a 7-mile run. My main obstacle to finishing the race was not my physical suffering or even the energy crash. It was this difference that meant that he would finish the race while I would give up.
It wasn’t until half way through the third year, after months of treatment from a brilliant cranial osteopath, that I was finally able to start running again. During the second year cycling became possible and walking easier but running was still a complete no-no. My last marathon was the New York in 2000, which I completed in a P.B. On 25th August I completed the Self Transcendence Marathon.