Let's see how far we can go... (OVW Marathon)
Just over 3 weeks ago I ran a local trail marathon, the Ouse Valley Way marathon to be precise. It's a race that's been reintroduced/relaunched this year and was previously organised by the local running club, Riverside runners , but after an absence of a few year is now organised by BRJ Run & Tri , in Huntingdon. I've run parts of the route since I moved to the area, which is flat, so, so flat, so I had an idea of what to expect and in training runs had slowly been doing more and more of the route, but in reverse, because, er, that's how I do things.... During training I'd done 20 miles about 5 weeks before the race and was hoping to get a 22 miler under my belt before ending the psychological mind melt that is 'taper', but my last 2 attempts ended at 19 and 16 miles, both times I'd just run out of energy, fuelling, hot weather, all possible excuses but also planting a massive seed in my head and reminders of how I felt during the last 6 miles o...