Ep 21 - Lakeland 100/50 Special

Kev attempts the British ultra marathon classic, the Montane Lakeland 100. This episode also features the Lakeland 50. Kev introduces you to more mid to back of pack runners, this time from Europe, who tell their stories and become Aid Station fans!

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SPEAKER_00 0:10

There it is in the distance. I can see it next aid station.

SPEAKER_05 0:32

Hello and welcome to the twenty-first edition of AStation. Today's episode is all about running a hundred miles and in particular the Lakeland Hundred, or to give it its official name, the Ultra Tour of the Lake District. And this name probably came about because of a replication of the UTMB in France, and to create an event that had something similar to that as in terms of atmosphere and difficulty in the UK. And the event's been going for I think this is the thirteenth edition or fourteenth edition. Um so there's a l quite a bit of tradition with it, and it's an old British race, and uh very much one the in the tick box uh bucket list category in the UK. And so there's I'm not gonna go on too much about it because there's a lot of stuff in here from Mark Lathwaite, the race race director, in terms of what was done at the race briefing. And uh you'll hear me all the way through it describing the race as it goes along. It covers the hundred and the Lakeland fifty as well. I'm actually talking to you now from my accommodation uh which we had, which is up at Boot, which is a good ten miles away from Coniston, right up across the moor behind the old manor Coniston, and on the road out to Hardnot Pass, for all of you who know the lake district. And uh it's absolutely pouring down with rain at the moment, and they're out there somewhere in it all. So let's just get on and here are the cowbells of inspiration.

SPEAKER_02 2:26

Welcome to the 2022 Montan Legend 100! Welcome to Club Star.

SPEAKER_03 2:40

Hello Kingdom of the Metal Podcast today! We are gonna have an epic weekend. I'm looking forward to it. It's too poor, it's too poor, we're too excited, are we? Let's not show our hands. Put your hand up if this is your first mountain light hundred. Oh that's about that's I think that might have been in favour of the people who attempted the first time. Well, nice, it's okay. Good split there, a good split. Okay, people who've done it before, put your hand up again. Leave it off if you've done it twice. Leave it off if you've done it three times. Four times. Sorry, there are some people here. If you're going for your slate, show go in for the slate. Five, well done. Leave your hand up. Don't uh your box is something you haven't got around yet. Um leave your hand up if you've done five or more. Who's done five or more? Hands up! Okay we're whigling it down now. Leave your hand up if you've done six or more! Seven or more. So it's one hand till left up. Next will be eleven or more, don't you? Matt, how many are we now? What number is next? Well home. Let's see what happens next weekend. Are we ready? If you're from the south, give us a chill! If you're from the north, give us a chill! Super, we'll leave it there. Put your hand up if you're outside of the UK. Okay, okay, sir. Where are you from, sir?

SPEAKER_04 5:56

Germany.

SPEAKER_03 5:57

I'm gonna start in Germany. I was gonna say give us chat if you're outside of Europe, but I don't really want to go there, mate. We didn't want to leave, honestly. Germany! I'm gonna be better than off is in Germany! Uh kill it, mate. Anybody want to make me a better offer than Canada? Can we have not a good geography? We're all just presuming that Australia's got to be further away from Canada, so we're gonna go with that. Okay, so I just wanted to finish just by talking about a couple of stats and making a couple of points before we get out there and get this important stuff started. Um I've got a statistic here, the highest percentage of people ever to finish the Lake 100. Okay? So 14 years we've got a room full of people like this. Highest percentage of people to ever finish the Lake 100 collectively. 65%. You're right to go lower. 62. 63. 64 is bang on. 64%. In minute celebration, I take everyone, take everyone this weekend. Stand up. Yes. 64%! That is the highest percentage we've ever had finished in this event. At some point in the race, you're gonna get to a checkpoint and you may be absolutely exhausted and you're gonna have your head on the table or in your food. Or you're gonna sit there and you're gonna feel okay. And the person next to you is gonna be the person I just described. They're gonna be sat there with their head on the table in their food. So this year we're working together, we're working as one family, we're working as one team. So, what I want you to do, in a second, I want you to turn to the person who's on your left. If you're on the end of the row, you're a bit knackad. Person that's to one side of you, I want you to turn to that person, and I want you to say to them, look them in the eye, and I want you to say to them, you are part of my family. I will not let you fail. I will take you in.

SPEAKER_05 9:21

I've never been at such a fun uh race briefing before. Obviously, there was some serious stuff in there on the safety side and the route uh direction and all that sort of thing, but it really was a lot of fun and got everybody together and in the right frame of mind for trying to complete this uh gruelling test. And I think it's a a testament to the event itself and Mark Laithwaite and the way they run the whole thing. I mean, I was hoping to uh record at all the uh many of the aid stations which have these fantastic themes going on, and you know they have like rock and roll themes and disco and all this sort of thing in the actual aid stations and music playing, and they're having loads of fun. I've seen loads of videos of it. And then we were all gathered at the start line, there were about 530 odd on the start for the hundred. The tenor tr sang the traditional Ness and Dormer, which they've had every year, I believe. Um, and it's quite a um spine tingler, and uh then we were off, and the run was fantastic up through up Lake Road and up into Coniston High Street. Uh, the crowds were about six deep, uh cheering like mad, but it was really good. Now, which goes around the old man of Coniston and got over the euphoria of the start, which is amazing. And we're heading out to the second checkpoint is boot. I can't remember what the first one is, even I haven't even looked. Uh and uh it climbs out of Coniston pretty steeply, and then you get to a gate with a single track, and there's a long long wait and about 10 minutes, which stopped me getting off too quick, which is a good thing. Now we're heading out open countryside and really getting into it. Interesting to see how people approach it. Loads walking up here, some with poles, some without. I'm not using mine at the moment, and uh some pushing on way too hard, breathing heavier than I am now, and I'm climbing, but uh we'll see how it all goes. Overtaking loads down here and coming in, descending into the first checkpoint, which I guess is at the bottom of this valley, but this is a brilliant descent. Fair old climb up at the corner stuff, and of course then you're rewarded with this beautiful descent down at quite a nice gradient so that you don't get over speed. Very rocky, getting over onto the bar, there's grass on the sides now and again. But really enjoying it all the way down. It's a super lovely evening, dead calm, about eighteen degrees at the moment, and looking forward to breezing through the first checkpoint. In one forty two, and that was about seven mile, I think. Just gonna get some water and get going. Thank you very much, thank you. Just choking on a bit of ginger cake. Um and then uh that'll be the last one in the daylight, I think. The head torch then. I'll see you at the boot. Uh I got to check point two just on the four hours. I don't know what the hell is going on. Yeah, I don't know what um I can know here. Well you can only have I haven't had that. At one point. And if we can get it home, still you can probably get how many walking on the right over there. But anyway, that is the end of my life 100. Um hopefully I'll get some more stuff together. And hopefully Sylvie will get around. And uh we'll stay in with um Martin Kiman. We'll get it done as well in the 50 tomorrow. So I will hope to do a bit of reporting on that. Still not feeling that great. But anyway, enough of me. I've come back with uh Martin, Kim, and Marta who I'm staying with. Um and they've just gone off on the coach to take them over to Delmain to do the start of the 50. Um it has rained all night, uh constant rain, not heavy, but just continuous rain. Um so not great for the competitors, it'll be very slippy and boggy out there now. Um Sylvia is still going, and uh which is great news. She was I last heard through bling Cathar. It's not great for signal here, but I'll go over to the HQ later and see if I can dot watch a bit. So until then I'll come back with some updates, but I hope to get it done and I hope Sarah Francis has a good race. She's about to start the fifty as well and come back on with hopefully some uh reporting on the finishes as well, because I get to see the winner come in, hopefully, from the hundred and well also the fifty, I guess. Uh where we're staying, and the rain is absolutely torrential, and um they're in for a whole day of this. Um, it's like sheeting down, and I said sheeting, and uh so it's not great for them, but Sylvie is doing so well, she's just heading down uh past High Force down to Aura Force above Oldswater, um, so that's really good, and she's cracking it out. I just hope she gets around and gets it done. The others, it's now just gone literally like 31 minutes past 11, so they'll have just started out from Dalmain on the 50. So I hope they all go well, but they really have got atrocious weather. The only good thing is that it's warm, it's about 16, 70 degrees high up, um, and so not too bad at all in terms of just keeping warm, but they're gonna be very, very wet. Well, it's half past ten at night on Saturday night now, and I'm sat in the car park at Coniston, and I'm in the public car park because the uh organised car park is an absolute quagmar and people can't get in and out of it. That's how bad the rain's been. It's been raining for about 19 hours now. Um and the hundredth uh winner has arrived ages ago. A guy called Ali Bailey, who finished in 2046-02, and the first female home was Emma Stewart, and she was also seventh overall in 2305-54. Uh, but as ever, with this podcast, I am waiting for the mid-to-backpack to finish. Um, and I've got some friends out there and some new acquaintances that are coming home, as you know, and I'll have mentioned uh before. I'm just waiting. The first one in will be Kim, um a German guy that I've just met, and he uh is going pretty well on the 50. Um, I think he's gonna be in around about midnight time. Um, and I'm gonna go up there uh into the marquee because there's this fantastic welcome when you come. There's a great atmosphere up there, they do it really well when people finish, they dib in obviously outside under the finish gantry, and then they're bought in to the marquee in front of everybody and presented with their finishers' medal, um, and they work the crowd, there's music playing, and there's really great atmosphere. So it's a great thing if you get to complete the 50 or 100, um, you just get this incredible welcome, which must be really great. I've seen people in tears at the end of it already, some of the early finishes, and coming in with their families and children, and all sorts, so it's really great. But I'm telling you all this now because the next time you hear this, there'll be such a noise that I won't be able to intro it. So I'm just going to give you a taste of the atmosphere that's going on. And the hundred finishers get a particularly loud cheer, as you can hear, so it's just brilliant to be in there. But um, I'm back at the car now, and just going to give you a bit of an update on where all my mates are out there, anyway. There's a few people I haven't mentioned yet. Um, Paul Telford, my old mucker from the Dragonsbite Race, he's going really well. He's looking like somewhere around 12 and a half, 13 hour finish, I think. Um, and he's not far behind Martin, who is not far behind Kim. So there's going to be a spell of around about an hour or so where I see all those come in, which would be really great. It is still chucking it down out there. Uh, they must be wading through all sorts of bog over slippery rocks. Uh, there's been quite a few injuries I've been hearing since I've been in the tent. So uh some people have been having some fairly nasty falls, so it's just not great running conditions. Um and Sarah uh Francis is still going in the 50, which is really great. She's a really determined woman and doesn't mind a bit of rain having done the Cape Roth Ultra uh this year, which was also a complete washout for a lot of the stages. Um, and also out there on the on the 50 is um Steve Jones, who is another guy I met on the Dragon Spite race and an absolute dragon legend having finished it. So hopefully he'll get it done as well. Um, and Marta is still going strong, which is also brilliant on the 50. Um, so she's looking like somewhere around 15 and a half hours at the moment uh on the 50, and of course, last but by no means least, Sylvie, who is still battling on out there. Um, she's well round now, she's done about 70 odd miles of it, and I'm just willing her on. I hope she can uh get round, and this is her third attempt, so for the hundred, so I hope she can get it done this time. Come on, Sylvie, bring it home.

SPEAKER_06 29:26

It a station music, you know, like cheers.

SPEAKER_05 29:31

Cheers. So we are now sitting in our lovely lodge accommodation at up near Hard Knock Pass, um, and the race is long over. And uh we are I am sitting here with Sylvie, who's from Spain originally but lives in London. And two three of her uh friends, ultra-running friends that she's met. Sylvie knows a lot of people, um, in the ultra world. That's true. And we have Kim from Germany, Martin from Switzerland, and Marta, who is Spanish but also lives in Switzerland with Martin. So, um we're gonna just cover this off as like a summary. Um, you'll have all heard me talking about these four people and their trials and tribulations over the weekend. So we're just gonna summarise how their races went in the Lakeland 100. And I think this is quite good because we must have quite a big part of the international representation at the event in this room, because there weren't that many, although people had travelled from New Zealand to Australia. But it's really nice to see it, and it's this group's, I believe, other than Sylvie's first time to the Lake District. That's right. So I'm really interested to hear what you think of the Lake District to start with. Particularly it's weather.

SPEAKER_04 31:03

The weather is wonderful.

SPEAKER_06 31:05

You've been so lucky with the Lakeland weather this week.

SPEAKER_04 31:07

Well, Sylvia's told us that it's uh gonna be four seasons, yeah, and there was one missing out. Actually, there was two missing out. Yeah. Actually, three.

SPEAKER_08 31:19

It was just rain.

SPEAKER_04 31:21

I was running, I I ran the thing, the 50s in 12 hours, and yeah, that was ten hours of rain. Yeah. And we were running not on trails, on single trails, we're running along inside brooks and walking over water and stuff like that. Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 31:38

And how did you find that?

SPEAKER_04 31:40

Because you're used to running on alpine trails? Alpine, alpine and also the mud stuff, because where I run in the Black Forest, it's mud stuff. Oh, right, okay. Yeah, and I have the slippery stuff as well.

SPEAKER_05 31:51

Yeah. Yeah. Right. So what what's new to you then from the lake district type running? The fern. Which is called bracket.

SPEAKER_04 32:03

Which is also called I learned a few things. For example, that bracket is fern and fern is bracket. Right. And that it means that you don't see the trail you're running on. Yeah. Because it's like curving in like your roads in the Lakelands. Yeah. They they cut the roads free, but they bend in. Yeah. And make the roads even smaller than they are. Yeah. They're actually moving walls, growing walls, yeah. Yeah, that was new. And the massive rain, the long rain.

SPEAKER_06 32:37

The boggy terrain.

SPEAKER_04 32:39

Oh, the boggy. Boggy, that's another new word I learned. Right. Boggy means squashy. It means Martin trotting into holes knee deep for no apparent reason, but he did. Almost looks like it's w when we're talking about these new shoes by I am by this famous company who go click, go, click, click, click, click, and you do jumps. Oh. And the boggy bits, they were a bit like this. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Well, the one thing is that it's it's kind of at some place, it was going on for quite long. And it felt like running on sand. And I know running on snow is really bad. But even worse is running on sand, which I did a few times because it's absorbing your energy and you don't get anywhere.

SPEAKER_08 33:36

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 33:36

Uh and this is that was a little similar at some places.

SPEAKER_05 33:41

And how about you, Martin? Because you as I understand have only ever done one ultra before, or was this right, yeah.

SPEAKER_01 33:51

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 33:53

And the distance jump was 30 kilometers. Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 33:57

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 33:58

Yeah. And how how did it go for you?

SPEAKER_01 34:00

Um, it was some kind of mild because uh there was a lot of running and less elevation. Usually the race in Switzerland they have a lot of elevation in this alpine environment.

SPEAKER_04 34:12

Yeah.

SPEAKER_01 34:13

And here it was running, which was good but but a bad thing to say.

SPEAKER_04 34:17

It was the bad side as well, wasn't it? We we we are not so used to running so much in the races actually.

SPEAKER_01 34:24

So usually and here it was a super welcome uh event when you were when I uh uh uh I could walk up and just stop running for for a couple of minutes or so. That was a really like a recovery phase for me. Yeah. That was nice. Yeah, okay. Yeah. But it went very well.

SPEAKER_05 34:40

So I'm yeah, yeah, you should be pleased with the result, I think, considering it was your first 50 miles or absolutely yeah, yeah, yeah. Really good result. Yeah. Yeah. And Marty, you did a great job of getting it done. Thank you. Yeah, yeah, very impressed with uh the effort that you put in to get round because it I mean it was brutal of conditions and yeah, really good. And I never experienced this type of terrain before.

SPEAKER_07 35:10

Yeah, I think for me, uh all the reasons this year I didn't train so much for this.

SPEAKER_08 35:17

Yeah.

SPEAKER_07 35:18

Um and it was yeah, it was not easy, but yeah, I think uh the time uh for the race helped quite a lot, yes. So you have uh you know you can finish it. Yeah, whatever you do. So yeah, it was not so easy, but it was fun. It was very good.

SPEAKER_05 35:38

Yeah, I think it's great that you all got the 50 ton. It's really excellent. Some say it's only a start.

SPEAKER_04 35:46

Yeah. Are you coming back to the hundred?

SPEAKER_08 35:49

Yeah, that's it, based off like this is what I heard.

SPEAKER_01 35:53

So you upgrade the next year or the it was actually the first thing uh that one of the volunteers was saying at the finish line, uh she said, Ah, well done. So you're ready for the 100, your time was very good.

SPEAKER_07 36:08

It's sort of ballot, right? And maybe because there's so little or not so many foreigners, maybe we can't do it. Maybe they want more.

SPEAKER_05 36:17

Yeah, yeah. I'm sure there's a percentage. I mean, yeah, in some reason they do that, right?

SPEAKER_07 36:23

They need to have or they want to have a list.

SPEAKER_04 36:25

Uh yeah, but many of them are like UK residents. The foreigners, right? You have a lot of flags hanging out with uh yeah, there was a yeah.

SPEAKER_05 36:37

Well, Sylvie even had a Union Jack on against her name and she's Spanish because she lives here. Yeah, I guess that is a trick of the computer or something.

SPEAKER_06 36:46

Yeah, maybe because of the address.

SPEAKER_05 36:48

Yeah, yeah. That's good. That's true. So we should talk about Sylvie and the hundred, which was also a fantastic effort.

SPEAKER_07 36:58

Very impressive.

SPEAKER_05 37:00

Yeah, come on, Sylvie, tell us, tell us all about it.

SPEAKER_06 37:04

Uh I enjoy it very much. Um until Kemir. Uh the weather, uh maybe I overdid the rain dancing a little bit because last year uh the heat wave was too much. Oh, yeah. So this year the rain at the beginning it didn't bother me, but then two nights uh yeah, on the rain.

SPEAKER_05 37:29

How many times is this to tackle a hungry?

SPEAKER_06 37:32

This is the third attempt.

SPEAKER_05 37:33

The third attempt, yeah.

SPEAKER_06 37:35

Uh yeah, but I will have to go for the fourth now.

SPEAKER_04 37:39

You are. You are right.

SPEAKER_06 37:40

Well, I don't know when, but I have to, you know, come back to Lakeland for sure.

SPEAKER_04 37:45

We come and join you.

SPEAKER_06 37:46

Uh yeah, you see, you see, I knew it.

SPEAKER_04 37:50

I told you I don't know. I'm I don't know whether I'm gonna be prepared for the hundred, but um why not?

SPEAKER_06 37:55

See, I I told you that you're gonna be hooked.

SPEAKER_04 37:57

Several reasons now why we have to come back to the lakes.

SPEAKER_06 38:01

And uh exactly the community, the bakery, everything.

SPEAKER_04 38:05

Oh yeah, let's talk about that bakery later.

SPEAKER_05 38:07

Yeah, yeah, we can yeah, we will come back to the bakery, which is worth telling.

SPEAKER_06 38:13

No, I start um in 2018 with Lake Land 50, like my friends, so it was a good start. Taste of Lakeland, my first uh I say navigation race. Yeah, and then I like it very much because of the community here, the friends you make here, and then you keep on bumping into the same people in different races, so it's a sense of community. Um hundred miles is a long way, yeah, it's a big journey. So it's not many things can go right and wrong. This time I thought that maybe uh I have the energy to finish, but then I felt sick. So yeah. So next time, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 39:02

And a lot of feet, your foot damage as well, yeah. Yeah, not so many blisters, but the masserized.

SPEAKER_06 39:08

No, the blisters, yeah. I have like uh yeah, drenching.

SPEAKER_05 39:13

Yeah, drenched feet.

SPEAKER_06 39:14

I have uh massive uh um yeah, chafing. Yeah, yeah, really tough. Yeah. But I really enjoy it. It was a nice, nice weekend out, I will say.

SPEAKER_04 39:32

I think it's super that you're so positive about this. Yeah, so do I really because when we found out that you're gonna drop out, we thought, oh my god, yeah, this is not good. Because we were all so positive that you're gonna make it this time.

SPEAKER_06 39:48

Me too. I thought that this time, you know, it's like this is the time.

SPEAKER_04 39:51

I feel but then yeah, yeah, you made the impression as well. Uh yeah, and we kind of felt the uh disappointment. Yeah, and then this morning you stepped out of your room and there was just a big smile.

SPEAKER_06 40:05

Yeah, because I have fun. I have fun, you know, it's it's not like I I suffered only at the end, I wasn't carrying this suffering, you know. I didn't have a sleep deprivation that I have last time. I I didn't hallucinate so much. Uh I was on top of my nutrition, I think, until Kemir.

SPEAKER_05 40:24

I think I mentioned it earlier in the podcast, but I should explain that Sylvie got to Ambleside and it was uh 89.4 miles of the 105 miles, so that's how close. But it's very hard, isn't it? Because well, I think even more so with this event that fift a hundred miles is not two times fifty.

SPEAKER_04 40:49

No, it's just gonna say that because if you do the 50 in 12 hours, it doesn't mean that you're gonna do the hundred times.

SPEAKER_06 40:56

I think the difference could be the two nights that you are out, well, definitely two nights for me because I'm a slow runner. Yeah, um, yeah, I think tonight, the second night is very hard. Yeah um but no, it was I have fun, I I enjoy, so that's why you know uh I will come back. I will come back.

SPEAKER_05 41:16

So how do you feel, Martin, about the um the whole Lakeland 100 experience? Sorry, Kim, not Martin. I was gonna ask Martin about his Lakeland 100 experience with the organization and oh I loved it.

SPEAKER_04 41:33

Yeah, I really loved it. Um I was telling you before it was such a supportive and nice atmosphere, and you were telling us, come to the atmosphere is super people camping, it's like a family, and we were like, mmm, we are German and Swiss, and we is that gonna be true? We we are different. No, well, maybe we are, but uh whatever. You and it all came true. Uh and I I was suffering as well. Yeah, I I had a hard time, and I had my legs were like shattered at times, and so um but the support from the other runners, the support from the staff, from the volunteers, I think that was massive. And not only that they were having fun at the stations, really did. But they I was sitting there having a zip-off, having a couple, and uh I was happy. And the moment I I let my head sink in, there someone would come. Is everything alright? Are you alright? Do you need anything? And I said, No, I'm fine. Um I'm I'm gonna get some more coffee. Oh no, no, let let me do it for you. Yeah, and that was that was great. Uh, and how these people kept up the yeah, the good vibes, yeah. Like at the end, when we were finished, the it was in the middle of the night, and the the lady who was welcoming him, the new finishers coming in every time, every single and she's been doing that for hours, like, yay, yeah, this is so and so, 50 miler, yeah, yeah, and she was on the top of her vice.

SPEAKER_05 43:14

Yeah, and the atmosphere in there is fantastic, isn't it? Yeah, it must be great to come in at a finish and get announced.

SPEAKER_04 43:19

And what the the first thing which astonished me, really, the first thing, was that at the beginning of the race of our race, and later you said the same happened, all the 50 milers were congratulating the the slower hundreds, which we were overtaking, every single one. Hey, good job, well done, keep going. And I thought, well, that was so nice. And so, like they it was they they say it's not so competitive, of course, uh in the front yet, maybe of course. But uh Um the rest of it is yeah, just the fan. Yeah, great. And the support is nice and the atmosphere's cool. Yeah. I really enjoy that. Yeah. And I recommend getting a lodge rather than camping.

SPEAKER_08 44:14

Oh yeah.

SPEAKER_04 44:17

With hours of rain. Yeah, with the rain that they had, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 44:22

And is it the same for you, Martin and Martha?

SPEAKER_01 44:25

Did you I try to really make good experience with volunteers? But here it was really on a different level, and it was like a spark of light in the night. So you're running alone and it's dark, and then you come in and it's almost like a party. Yeah. And they care so much about you and helping you and yeah, give you this extra kick which uh drags you to the next uh checkpoint that was that was really, really nice and helped a lot. So yeah.

SPEAKER_05 44:59

Um watch the uh what's next for you all? How about you, Sylvie? Start with you because I know what's next.

SPEAKER_06 45:07

Yeah, I have the TDS in the Alps.

SPEAKER_05 45:10

Fantastic.

SPEAKER_06 45:11

So yeah, let's see what happens, you know.

SPEAKER_05 45:14

For those that don't know, TDS is part of the UTMB race series in August. And that is what is 145k.

SPEAKER_06 45:29

Jesus, it's in the Alps, there is more altitude, it's uh quite technical. Yeah, let's see. I'm very excited. Yeah, I'm very excited about that because it's a different route from the tour de Mont Blanc as well. So starting uh Cormaor all the way to Chamonix. Uh yeah, let's see, I'm very excited. I I love riding in the Alps. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 46:01

The strange thing is that we are not going. Yeah, and this time we're not. You just secretly registered.

SPEAKER_06 46:12

No, we told you, and you do an action.

SPEAKER_04 46:15

And I didn't do anything. Yeah, yeah. Like always. Like sometimes. Yeah. Really?

SPEAKER_06 46:20

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 46:20

Like Martin doesn't have a race lined up at all. If I ask you the same question. Me, I don't actually. And I'm Kim still. But I I don't actually. I'm thinking about taking on some other whatever. I'll find one just to keep because I'm doing races for motivation.

SPEAKER_08 46:48

Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 46:48

Um, and I love that. It makes me run uh every other day.

SPEAKER_05 46:54

Uh yeah, that's funny. Yeah, I need that. If I haven't entered anything, I can't go training. So Martin.

SPEAKER_01 47:03

And it is Martin this time. It's kind of it's Martin, yeah. Yeah. Usually I'm not signing up for races martyr, which is doing that for me. Oh, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 47:22

Did you run before?

SPEAKER_01 47:26

I started running and I just collect memories. I uh I disput pictures when I go to bed. Yeah. And everything else is yeah. She has she's more informed. I'm a busy uh yeah, not lazy, but I'm not so informed like she is in. She said, uh here's a good race. What do you think? We want to go and uh yeah, usually I say, yeah, come on, let's do that. Fantastic.

SPEAKER_05 47:52

Yeah, Martha, what have you got a race lined up?

SPEAKER_07 47:55

I thought actually I I thought uh gonna do the TDS did you got the entry, uh, but I'm not gonna do it. I'm not ready.

SPEAKER_05 48:04

Oh so you get it. Can you defer that or do you just not?

SPEAKER_07 48:07

No.

SPEAKER_05 48:07

Yeah, you just don't take it. Yeah, you just keep it out.

SPEAKER_07 48:11

I just uh cancel it, yeah. Okay.

SPEAKER_06 48:13

It's a sensible one.

SPEAKER_04 48:14

Yeah, it does.

SPEAKER_07 48:15

Yeah, I think you are not I like to feel prepared for something to be empty here. I don't mean half prepared.

SPEAKER_05 48:26

Yeah, something will come around that would tempt you or so we will find out.

SPEAKER_06 48:31

But that means that we need to plan something. Yeah, have only always something on the line or a couple of days ago.

SPEAKER_07 48:41

Exactly. The grass club.

SPEAKER_08 48:43

The grass clock and something else.

SPEAKER_06 48:47

Nothing with a stream or sky racing, please.

SPEAKER_05 48:50

Yeah, or bug that. Okay, well, thank you for joining me for the summary. Um, it'd be great if you come back to race in the UK again.

SPEAKER_04 49:05

Oh, yes. I forgot. Can I say something to this because what I this is coming back to your question with family? Yeah, about the family thing. Yeah, um I kind of like talking to people, but um in this race particularly, like what you said, you I mean you are special, uh Sylvia, because you make friends everywhere, and you have tons of friends in the running world, and I don't even know these people, and I don't know why. Um but you said this is such a family thing, and people talk to each other. And I actually talked to people on on the on the on the uphills and something, and then they came back and said, Hi Kim, da da da, how's it going? And then we were talking about other countries, other races, or life, and something like that. And it happened a lot, and uh this is what I wanted to just to throw in on this um question of yours. And also, I made a friend, yeah, and she's a baker, right? So, and today, just to round this off, she's from all over the place. Yeah, actually, she has a very international background, and she's a vegan chef to this place near Windermere called Ray Castle. Yeah, Ray Castle W and she said, Okay, today she told me she's done this twice. Last year she she wanted to finish it in 12 hours and she couldn't because she had some knee problems. And uh her goal was this year to finish this off in 12 hours. Yeah, and I think she made it kind of just over, something like that. She was very happy, and also she had to finish it in 12 hours because three hours later she had to rush off to this bakery and make all the bread and the cake which were that they were serving there. Uh, and we can all uh confirm I was looking for the word confirm that she did her job well because we all visited as a post-grade recovery thing. We had a very with uh with Kevin driving us around the lake district at high speed. Yeah, we had a very we we didn't mention this. It was a sunny, beautiful sunny day. Yeah, so we are racing around the lake district in uh Kevin's fast car, and we made it to Ray Castle, yeah, and we all had uh because of the vegan cafe, had this fantastic.

SPEAKER_06 51:55

It was very, very tasty for the cake.

SPEAKER_04 51:58

Some of the best vegan options I've seen. Yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, we were all very happy, and this is because of Lakeland 100, yeah, uh, which makes it so easy for people to make friends. Yeah. So I have a new friend now, yeah, and uh people just go there, yeah.

SPEAKER_05 52:16

And it's incredible that she's an endurance baker as well as an endurance runner. It's just ridiculous, and then go and bake at four in the morning. Yeah, but yeah, yeah, good. So the place we didn't say is called Joey's Joey's Cafe in uh Ray Ray's Castle. Ray Ray Castle, isn't it? Yeah, yeah. It's actually a national trust property, yeah. But I highly recommend you go there for the vegan cafe, yeah, and not so much the castle, yeah. Yeah, cake the coffee, yeah, yeah. So today's programme was sponsored by Joey's Cafe and Martin's new friend. Yeah. That was Kim's new friend.

SPEAKER_04 53:05

Yeah.

SPEAKER_05 53:07

That's it. You're Martin and you're Kim. Yeah.

SPEAKER_04 53:09

And her name is Noria, so just for the record. She's now going to be officially famous.

SPEAKER_05 53:14

Yeah, because actually we should look her up on the 50 and see what time she did and find out about her. Well, I'll try again to say thank you very much for joining, and thank you very much for this whole weekend because it's great to meet new people and share accommodation and beers and wine and everything. So, yeah, it's made it made the experience great for me because I didn't do so much, not so much running. So, uh, yeah, it's really good. Thank you very much. And thank you. Thank you. So I should just round up a few times uh that the people I was following did, just to give you an idea, uh, and these are all on the Lakeland 50 event. So we had Kim Landgraf, who did 11 hours 56 minutes and 17 seconds, Martin Aleck, who did 12 hours 36 minutes and 25 seconds, uh Paul Telford, who did 13 hours 4 minutes and 6 seconds, Marta Morea, who did 16 hours 6 minutes and 20 seconds, and Sarah Francis, who did 17 hours 17 minutes and 32 seconds, so an excellent effort by all those, and that draws a conclusion to the event from this perspective. But in terms of the event and my experience of it, an absolutely brilliant uh event. It's obviously a British classic now, uh, it's definitely a tick box one to undertake. I'd recommend doing the Lakeland 51st to get a feel for it if you haven't already done a hundred, it's not even like any ordinary hundred, you might have run a hundred miles before, uh, but this would be much tougher unless you've done a mountain hundred. Um, so if you're thinking of getting up there and do it, I highly recommend it. It's just a wonderful community, ultra-community atmosphere, um, and you should really get up there at some time in your ultra-running career and give it a go. And it's a real testament to Mark Laithwaite, uh his event crew, and all those people who are managing managing and uh working on the aid stations, just wonderful volunteers, a great event, and really thoroughly enjoyable. So until the next aid station, bye for now,