RE: [OT] : Insanity a bit closer to home...

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Well better late than never. :-D

She ended up doing 8hrs 58mins 12secs...

Phil

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> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Phil Harris
> Sent: 19 June 2009 12:41
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> Subject: [ukha_d] [OT] : Insanity a bit closer to home...
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> [Sorry...just spotted this in the Spam folder of Yahoo Group.M.]
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> Maybe some of you out there go out for a jog of a morning to keep fit?
> Maybe
> some of you actually do "run".
>
>
>
> Well, a very good friend of mine - Sandra Bowers - is, at this moment,
> in
> Belgium preparing to compete in the 100km World Championships where
> she's
> representing Great Britain for the very first time. Yup - that's
> running
> 100km (62 miles) in one hit!
>
>
>
> She's wanting to try to manage 8 hours 20 minutes but at that kind of
> distance it's not just a case of physically being fit enough to make
it
> to
> the end it it's a case of being mentally up to it too . the race
starts
> at
> 7pm this evening and finishes in the early hours of the morning (so
> that
> they're not running in too much heat). Being a lardy old git who
> struggles
> at the prospect of a 2.5km CaniCross then I just find the whole
concept
> of
> running 100km in one hit quite incredible and I'm unbelievably proud
of
> what
> she's achieved this year - she got her Scottish National Champion
title
> back
> after quite a bad year last year *AND* turned in a personal best for
> 100km
> over in Ireland a couple of months ago which got her the invite to run
> for
> Great Britain - so I'm as excited about it all as an excited thing
from
> Excitedville!
>
>
>
> If anyone is interested then this website will have live updates of
the
> race
> <http://www.iau.org.tw/> http://www.iau.org.tw/
under "Live Updates" ->
> "Live Updates --- Torhout IAU 100km World Cup".
>
>
>
> I'll be at home this evening with her huskies (I'm husky-sitting for
> her
> while she's away) keeping a close eye on progress .
>
>
>
> Phil
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