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Thursday, August 04, 2011

Final day : Close House hotel to Newcastle

So it arrived, our final run, our 5th Marathon in 5 days. Staying at our final destination,Close House we had had a good night's rest. A few new runners joined us for a sunny riverside jog down the Tyne river to the centre of town.

Our halfway stop at Newcastle's Monument created an attention gaining PR event for the charity, and also a final rub down stretch for those in need.

Lots of runners joined us for a 10m run to the coast @ Whitley Bay. On route we were joined by 6 cyclist who'd come 405m in 5days from Ivan's home town in Essex. We all gathered on the cliffs above the beecha before dropping down passed TV cameras to an awaiting arrival party of some 500 cheering people.

At last the sea, and a well earned beer!

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Day6 to Hexham

A overcast start with a gut busting 1m steady climb back up onto Hadrian's military road.

The clouds darkened, the rain came & slowly increased in intensity. A stop at Homestead (a roman garrison ruin) saw us huddling in the cafe scoffing pasties and warm tea. 30mins of waiting for the rain to ease we gave up resumed a soggy jog. The weather decided we'd not had enough wet stuff; it turned up the dial. Visabilty dropped to a few 100m, the splashes bounced 3" back off the road & soon formed rivers 2" deep running down the hills we climbed and 6-8" deep in the dips. Unreal is the only way to describe the feeling; we were laughing & shouting at the clouds; and were then cover in spray from passing cars and trucks (crazy)

5m outside Hexham, our penultimate town, we meet up with Olympic 800 & 1500m runner Steve Cram (pic to come). We jogged on with him and then had a race around the 400m track with his partner Alison.

To wrap up a surreal day, a music and dance troop gave us a masked performance of a dream like circus, trackside: all quite bizarre, but great all the same. (Pic to come).

(No pic yet due to the rain)

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Monday, August 01, 2011

Day5 to Hadrian's Wall

Typical northern goodbye, drizzle and grey sky gave way to full on rain and black clouds. 5m of drenched running along an A road finally passed and winding country lanes toward Hadrian's Wall.

We've run as a tight group this morning, but with the pace too slow for some legs a few stretched out to ease the stiffness. We're running 4.40hr pace but with stops, completing our runs in about 6.

Feet are fine but the left knee is struggling after a day1 incidence!

Finish 3.30ish today (hopefully)!!

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Sunday, July 31, 2011

Day4 - Keswick to Carlise

A leisurely start for our 28m run gradually changed to a hard day as we got no closer than 14m from Carlisle for over 8 long hot extra miles.

The scenery remained breath taking despite the cool morning giving way to a sweaty 21C

After 24m we reached a sign saying Carlisle 12m!! Our head dropped a little and we started to walk. Word come that there was a massive reception awaiting us, so we engineered a rapid lift to 2m outside the city.

We arrived to a huge crowd and dancing girls!!

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Day 3 Whitehaven to Keswick

A massive breakfast to kick us off, then Eastward bound. My first marathon run started and then finished with a long hard climb. The final Winlatter pass was a constant 3 mile hill followed by an equally thigh shredding 2mile decline - a few beers were very much needed to cool us down :)

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Day2 -arriving into Whitehaven

150miles counting a 10mile wrong turn. Sore legs but big smiles :) the old dis-used railway line created the prefect guide, off road and away from traffic. A hard 2nd day now we turn tail

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Friday, July 29, 2011

Keswick bound

100miles done & everyone's feeling the legs burn. Fortunately the amount on down hill now outweighs the up.

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Over the top

5miles climb to the summit - Penrith next stop

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Thursday, July 28, 2011

End of Day1

Who needs socks? Glorious sunshine on departure quickly gave way to full on rain! Despite that, some extremely challenging hill climbs everyone's still smiling - 65miles done

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TV cameras & everything at the start

Tynemouth Day 1
275 miles to go
Sunshine & smiles

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Tuesday, July 26, 2011

My feet pre challenge

1 day & counting before 275miles of pain !

Here comes the biggest single physical challenge of my life - so I thought I'd remind myself what they looked like before I tear them to pieces over the Pennines

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