{"id":130,"date":"2020-02-09T13:17:50","date_gmt":"2020-02-09T13:17:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iplodallday.johnkeat.com\/?page_id=130"},"modified":"2020-02-09T18:55:41","modified_gmt":"2020-02-09T18:55:41","slug":"beacons-ultra-46-miles-16th-november-2019","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/iplodallday.johnkeat.com\/index.php\/beacons-ultra-46-miles-16th-november-2019\/","title":{"rendered":"Beacons Ultra 46 Miles- 16th November 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Being just 5 weeks after the Autumn 100 miler the 47 mile Beacons Ultra was always going to be a bit of a training race (getting the excuses in early) as I’d not got a full training block in. We came up here a fortnight before and I ran one of the laps in training (it’s a two lap race) so I thought I knew the course well enough (and it’s not particularly complicated).<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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It started well and I climbed the first big hill Tor Y Foel strong. The visibility at the top was very poor and I was alone and missed the signs ? Can you see where I went wrong in the map below? ? It took me a couple of minutes to realise I’d messed up and I totally ballsed up getting back on route, I took too long to do the sensible thing and get my OS map out, once I did this I got on track soon enough. I probably tried a little hard after that to get some time back. The course follows some very rocky paths many of which were more like streams. I actually enjoyed these parts of the race, I’ve had a dodgy ankle and the cold melted snow streams did a great job of freezing the ankle ?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Michelle Maxwell<\/a> had me down for 4hrs to 4:15 for the first lap and despite the mess up I still got to half way in 4:12. My own target for the day was 8:15 so this wasn’t going to happen at this point.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The second lap went well without any mess ups and I came in in 8:42 before it got dark. It didn’t go as well as I’d hoped but it was a great event on a beautiful course and I had a great time so all in all a success!\u00a0?<\/p>\n\n\n\n

The reward for finishing was a nice little wooden medal and no t-shirt! I like this as I really don’t need any more race shirts.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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The event is put on by Uphill Down Dale and I can’t recommend it enough:
https:\/\/www.uphilldowndale.com\/events\/beacons-ultra<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Check out my activity on Strava: https:\/\/strava.app.link\/XDaqwK7wF1<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Being just 5 weeks after the Autumn 100 miler the 47 mile Beacons Ultra was always going to be a bit of a training race (getting the excuses in early) as I’d not got a full training block in. We came up here a fortnight before and I ran one of the laps in training … <\/p>\n

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