So the awesomeness begins tomorrow night! hooray! ****. just about got everything, need to pick up some protien and batteries as well as food food food will begin carb loading myself tonight which to be honest is the only bit i'm probably going to enjoy, i'm looking forward to the moment tonight where i come into the living room with a mixing bowl full of maccaroni about 8 sandwiches and a six pack of heavy and Mrs. LR asks me what i'm doing "training" nom nom nom nom nom
Dont bother carrying loads of carbs, they'll add needless extra weight and just be a pain in the arse. Have your meals at the lovely pubs on the route, you'll enjoy it more. On the way all you'll need is a couple of bananas, water and some of these..... please log in to view this image
as we're going for speed i'm cheating and got someones mrs running support so will only be carrying water a jacket etc worked out in 2 days we'll burn something like 20,000 calories
You cheating bastard We had to carry the tent along with water, sleeping bags, food, bog roll etc I dumped Frank and Russell with tubs of pasta when I dropped out in a mixture of shame and agony
its going to be bad enough without carrying everything, if i had too i'd just take a sleeping bag and bivvy pag, maybe a poncho that 3 of us could get under loads of carbs and protein at stops and socks socks socks. think of me on sat night, that'll be the proper dark night of the soul as we're trudging across rannoch moor in the dark. i'm also taking 80 ***s and a bottle of whisky.
Aye carry some heavy bags up Conic Hill LR ya cheating bar steward!! Was a ****ing nightmare with all that extra weight!
i'm not carrying **** all unless i absolutely have to. at that point it'll be so early on in the thing we might jog up it
On Sat night I'll be hoping to be hanging out the back of the bird I'm seeing, so I'll try my best not to think of a sweaty guy walking through the wilderness
The way down Conic Hill was a ****. Slippy as **** when we done it. I fell on my arse when they were talking to some old boy. I think they would have laughed if it wasn't for the thought of maybe having to carry me down The first night I didn't even think of the extra weight. It was when we woke up on that concrete floor in the barn/toilets at 6am and my shoulders were killing me when I realised how heavy my bag was
That morning waking up in the barn I was more pissed off about the cock-a-doodle-**** than anything else Also, I wanted to get out of there sharpish after walking into some woman's wigwam earlier thinking it was empty
Aye that was ****ing annoying Would have been funny if we just collapsed into that and fell asleep. Wake up in the morning and shes screaming To think we walked all that way for the wigwams, then there was only 2 and both getting used ****s
failure. crushing. crushing failure. didnt manage to finish it as we were too far off the pace towards the end (we were about 72-74 miles in) and we couldnt afford to go over our time limit as our support driver needed to be at an exam shortly afterwards (not the greatest idea in hindsight!). we also had a 4 hour delay when the support car decided to lock itself with the keys in and another hour when the 3rd guy went down with a bad blister and had to toddle off to hospital. me and the other guy cracked on till Glen Coe but it became obvious that we were too far behind and werent going to make it. I think the worst bit was the realisation that we'd have to do it again. I think its likely to be September. sat/sun night was ****ing terrible, we were both starting to hallucinate at about 1 in the morning and were stumbling about due to exhaustion, decided to stop and get the storm shelter out (basically a bit of plastic) and sleep for an hour under the underpass at bridge of orky. did help a lot but we were both breakdancing with the cold when we got up again at half two. the worst part had to be when we were at some campsite somewhere getting water/changing socks etc etc and i went of to the bogs to baste the chicken and grease the hoop and asked my mate in the adjacent bog if he had any anti bacterial wet wipes, turned out he did so got one off him and gave the hoop a wipe............**** me i was in agony the ****er had given me an antiseptic one and my rigpiece was on fire. did about another 25 miles from this point and had ****ing horrific nappy rash by the end. looking at it now we'll start first thing and not at night and will also do it north to south rather than south to north. gutted we're doing it again. totally gutted
