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05/04/2008
Jurassic Coast Marathon - 28/03/08
Race Intro
They're coming thick and fast now! This marathon is just 2 weeks after Cornwall, which saw me horrible round in 7 hours and 3 seconds, amazingly only 2 hours behind the winner!
But my knee took a battering and I know it won't have recovered in time for this one. My right knee this time, but the same problem - Illiotibial Band Syndrome - a massive band of ligament that runs from your hip felxors down the side of your thigh, over the outside of your knee, connecting to your tibia. It's common among runners, and incredibly painful!
This one is part of a bigger event where some nutters are doing 3 marathons in 3 days - some running, others walking. I'm joining the first, and toughest, of those days.
The Route
Back down to Weymouth and the Dorset coastline, this one runs East from Lyme Regis back towards Portland where I struggled rund all those months ago to finish number 2.
Following the coastline almost all the way, with only 3 checkpoints and no markers - runners must rely on a map, compass, and their wits...
Elevation Data
Not much to say about this one really is there! The first half of the race is aboviously horrendous compared to the second half, with elevation changes of up to 700ft in a matter of metres.
Of course by now I know that what really counts is terrain - will this be massive hills of nicely maintained and well worn path, or of jagged boulders and torrents of liquid mud straight from the bowels of hell? Who can say!
"Injured, sick, and tired of the whole thing because of it. But then, this was exactly why running so many extreme endurance events in such short succession is so difficult - there is no recovery time, and being difficult was the point. I almost talked myself out of it. I could find another race. Get fit again and do it properly. But doing it properly didn't mean doing it well, it meant doing it right." Read on...
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