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Ep 47 Hannah Hall’s Hundred..and 24 Hour
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In this episode Kev crews Hannah Hall at the Sri Chinmoy Self Transcendent 24 hour track race, where Hannah was attempting to run her fastest 100 miles. This episode gives you a trackside listen into the ups and downs of a very flat Ultra distance run.
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SPEAKER_11Like it's next next I should have a little bit of a little bit of a welcome to episode 47 of AidStation.
SPEAKER_03I'm well that might be sounding more chirpy than I actually thought I would, having been up all through Saturday and Sunday on a 24-hour race where I was crewing for the one and only Hannah Hall. And this is all about her story of that race. A race I did last year, and Hannah blames me for doing that, which inspired her to do it, as you will hear in the podcast. And that is covered in episode 39 if you're interested in going through the back catalogue. Anyway, without further ado, here are the cowbells of inspiration. So we're sitting track side at Batisi Park track, ready for the Shri Chemoi 24-hour track race. And sat next to me is Hannah who's running the race. And I'm crewing. How are you feeling, Hannah?
SPEAKER_09Uh excited, nervous, terrified, excited. Like I might have to pee at least five times in the next 20 minutes.
SPEAKER_03So you've had the race briefing. How did that go? Nothing new to learn?
SPEAKER_09Uh well, just very different format for me. I've never done a round and round race before, so uh just things to get your head around, like the very exciting change of direction every four hours.
SPEAKER_14Woo-hoo.
SPEAKER_09Uh you've got uh actual people counting your lapses backup um as well as your chip. Um so I'm sure it'll be blazingly obvious when you're running round and round. Um but yeah, I think it's gonna be quite exciting.
SPEAKER_03Good. And how has your prep been as a build-up to this?
SPEAKER_09Uh iffy. Uh I always said I wouldn't race in September because the summer holidays are always a bit full on with kids at home and work um for the summer. Uh so haven't been quite as disciplined as usual with the training, but um I will give it my best shot.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, and we um this came about because about a mutual friend of ours, Dom, Dom Wake, we were at a rather nice um brunch that he'd organised, and you said you'd entered. Um and I was extremely jealous, so I entered as well.
SPEAKER_09Well, hold on a minute. This this came about because you did it last year. I'm supposed to back up a little bit. It's definitely Kev's fault that I'm here. You can't blame it on brunch or me. Uh Kev did it last year, and uh I didn't think it would be something I'd ever be interested in doing, but his reports back from last year made me think actually that might be quite a fun thing to try. Um, so very, very much ashamed that you can't be running today, but I'm very grateful to have you here supporting me.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I'm happy to support actually. I I bailed because I got injured and then had a bad man flu, you know, which is terrible.
SPEAKER_14Awful.
SPEAKER_03So, but now I'm really happy to be here and and support you. So you have um a target, don't you?
SPEAKER_09Yes, do we have not sure I want to tell anyone the target. Yes, so I want I want entered because I wanted to get a hundred mile PB. Um so that's the main focus, and then we'll see what happens uh after that. The uh the second target after that will be a 24-hour PB, and there's a third target, I can't remember what it was. Just to get it done.
SPEAKER_03Um so And this some of this came about because you've run your fastest um hundred miles is at the Thames Path, isn't it? The Centurion Thames Path, right?
SPEAKER_09Yeah, that was that was a couple of years ago. Um, and I I did have a really good run, but the second half was super, super muddy. Um so it was a slower second half than I was hoping for, but that was that was purely kind of down to conditions. Um so I got to blame the mud for that. Whereas here I think the only thing I'm gonna have to blame if I don't get what I want is myself, uh, which is exciting and nerve-wracking.
SPEAKER_03And what what time did you do at Thames Park?
SPEAKER_09Uh I finished the whole the race was just over 100 miles, so I finished in just under 22 hours, but I think my hundred miles was 2133.
SPEAKER_03Okay, so you you've you've put a marker down there anyway. Should be able to do that around here, hopefully.
SPEAKER_09So, anyway, we'll we should paint a picture, by the way, that um Kev, despite all his race experience, we're we're parked up between a row of people and support crews who've got small villages out, tents, awnings, picnic benches, the lot. Kev's bought a table.
SPEAKER_03I do have my golf brawley. You do and we are forecast a bit of rain later, but yeah. I mean, we're in the middle of London, so what can go wrong? Anyway, best of luck, Hannah. I'll speak to you, well, uh you know, probably every two and a half minutes, probably. Go Hannah. Um, but yeah, uh at the end, and hopefully you'll have achieved your target. Have a very good race.
SPEAKER_09Thank you very much.
SPEAKER_03Dead on time, and uh cloudy sky is actually quite really nice temperatures for running in. Um we're currently two hours into the race, and uh there's a little bit of rain, showery rain, but nothing that's affecting anybody in terms of needing to run in a waterproof or anything. Um, and Hannah's going very well. She's uh currently done just under 12 miles in two hours, which is right on her programme. Um, she didn't discuss what her strategy was, but she's uh currently running um 30 minutes and then taking a one lap walk-in break, and she intends doing that all the way through, so a bit of a run-walk strategy. Um she's tending to uh eat during the walks, obviously, um, and is taking on orange juice and actually I think it's all orange juice at the moment in both she's got a small bumbag type pack with uh two bottles in it, with orange juice in at the moment. There will be alternatives later on. Um and is on a she's measured out all her calories actually into individual bags, plastic bags. Um with all the um stuff tends to be sweet in my opinion. Um she's currently on stroop waffles uh as her food of choice at the moment, but I mean she seems to be seeming leaving it to me to give her whatever um is there on the table at the moment. Um and in terms of setup here it's really good. There's um everybody seems to have crew this year just about, um, and there's all sorts of types of setup from large uh gazebo type structures behind uh camper vans right down to uh one group actually pushed the camper van onto the track because it had broken down a really old one. Um there's even there's an old like almost vintage citron from the 60s, somebody's working out the back of there's all sorts going on uh in terms of vehicles and setup. Um the current leader is a guy called Kieran Spooner, who is now two hours and six minutes in. He's done 66 laps, he's done 26.4k or 16.4 miles. Um and he came second at London to Brighton last year. Um and the guy I think who won London to Brighton is in third at the moment. So there'll be some interesting race strategy going on as it goes through. So that's where we're at at the moment. Bring you something I mean, I don't think things really get that much more exciting. It's really funny when you've done this race, um, and obviously you're in it as an athlete, you have a different view on it to when you sat on the side just watching people going round thinking this is a really stupid thing to be doing. But I know why they're doing it, and uh judging by uh some of the people that are going round, there's all sorts of um reasons why they're doing it, taking the look at the some people who are obviously testing themselves to see what they can do, so it'll also be interesting to see how deep they dig and how far they go. Anyway, come back on, probably at the turnaround point about four hours in. That is the turnaround. This is the first four-hour point. We're less than a minute away from it, and the cone is in the track, and at some point, the official will tell the first runner that comes through there uh four hours after the start of four o'clock this afternoon to turn around. So I thought I'd try and capture some of the incredible excitement that goes on with these. There's a few cheering their people on, which is great. And I've now got 1600 or 4 o'clock. Uh Hannah's going really well. Um she's not over pushing it, she's a little bit ahead of her schedule. Um, I'll get back on that. She was hoping to do 12 and a half miles in the first four hours, and they are all turning around.
SPEAKER_08Turn around! Every now and then I get a little bit.
SPEAKER_03That's the girls are singing, as you can tell, every now and again turn around, which is quite nice for the runners. Here comes Hannah. She's just coming in. Hooray! Well done, Hannah! Oh, the excitement. Nice turn. That was the current leader just went through number forty-seven.
SPEAKER_01Ninety-nine. Ninety-three.
SPEAKER_04Ninety-five. Seventy-two.
SPEAKER_03What you're hearing there is the timekeepers reading out the race numbers on the turnaround so they can check, obviously, the turnaround, and already they are now being joined by people coming the other way. Uh Hannah had completed 99 laps, uh, 39.6 kilometres or 24.6 miles. Um, so she's up on her schedule. She's second female to somebody called Immo Body, um who has done 28.5 miles, and Hannah's done uh 24.6, as I said earlier. And she's followed by Lucy Peaks, who's done 24.3. So that's quite close between second and third at the moment. Um there are 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7 females in the field. Uh the men's field is being led by Julian Corzola, who has completed 30.82 miles, and he's followed by Kieran Spooner, who has done twenty-nine point eight, so there's a mile in it at the front end. So who am I talking to?
SPEAKER_10Sam Bowyer.
SPEAKER_03Hello, Sam Boya, and you're standing here holding up a gazebo, manfully or womanfully, in um yeah, it's quite breezy, isn't it, for this sort of thing. And you're drinking prosecco?
SPEAKER_10Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Very good. That's the way to do it for crewing. So who are you crewing for?
SPEAKER_10Um Lee Truman.
SPEAKER_03Lee Truman, and what club is he from a club or a uh Tossham running club in Southampton. And it's just Lee, is it?
SPEAKER_10Um Lee, and we've got David Nightingale as well.
SPEAKER_03Alright, okay. Both from the same club or yeah, excellent. And how are they doing?
SPEAKER_10They're doing well. Um, about 52k at the moment. So brilliant.
SPEAKER_03Doing alright.
SPEAKER_10And do you know have they either of them got targets or um last time Lee did about 125 miles, so he'd like to go, even if he goes 126, I think he'd like to go just over. Um, and I think Dave's then looking to do 100 miles in a certain time, but I'm not sure what that is. So okay, excellent.
SPEAKER_03So it's all on target then?
SPEAKER_10Yes, yeah, doing well at the moment if they eat.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, that's the big thing, isn't it? Yeah. Are they very good at being told what to do?
SPEAKER_10Um, mine's listening to me. David is only listening to his coach Nathan. He won't listen to his wife, so and is this Nathan? This is Nathan Fleer, yeah. This is coach.
SPEAKER_03Hello to Nathan. Hiya, Nathan. How are you? All right, yeah, good, thanks. Now I've heard your name before, haven't I? Possibly, yeah. What have you done?
SPEAKER_04Uh a few of these sort of races. Oh, yeah. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, so so who you sorry, you coaching for?
SPEAKER_04So yeah, so I coached these guys um and then crew in for them as well for David. Um so yeah, yeah, they're after well, David's after a spathlon qualifier. That's his uh that's his goal.
SPEAKER_03Okay, and what would you have to do to get in the spot athlon?
SPEAKER_04So you need for the ballot, I think it's uh what is it, Trace, exactly? Do you know what he's at what the because he's going for 200k, but I think it's 190k, I think, for for ballot place. Yeah, um, yeah, and then there's an automatic qualifier which is which is a little bit bit quicker, I think.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, okay. And that takes place next week.
SPEAKER_04Next week, but they're trying to qualify for next year. Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah. Okay, yeah, that's a different kettle of fish to this, isn't it? Well, it's it's it's it draws the same sort of people typically because it's this sort of long, flat run in, you know. Um, but yeah, in terms of the weather and the terrain, yeah, a little bit different, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, and you've done, I think you've done some stuff yourself, haven't you? Like some good.
SPEAKER_04So I've done uh this stuff, um, the national team, and then um and then the spatathlon as well, and some other bits and pieces, yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, yeah. Can't stay away from it.
SPEAKER_04Focusing a bit more on the on the coaching now. Um I I I coach uh Matt Field who who broke the British record. Uh that's how I knew yeah. Quite possibly.
SPEAKER_03I knew I was linking it to something, yeah.
SPEAKER_04So we got those guys going out for the world championships next month as well in Albi. Um so again, another track 24. Oh, it's not actually on a track, it's uh it's a mile loop, but uh yeah. And that's always Albi, isn't it? No, so they they tend it was there five years ago, um, and it was there eight years ago, I think, but they try and change it every every couple of years. But um, I think with funding in the sport, it's always a bit of a tricky one to get uh local sort of organisers to to fund it, you know. And um yeah, they obviously find the money from somewhere in France.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, excellent. Well, nice to speak to you. Yeah, like to your guys and the coaches.
SPEAKER_04Thanks very much.
SPEAKER_03She's done 35 miles or 56.4k. Um she's ahead of schedule, and next thing we're looking at is the time that she gets. I think she had um quarter to seven, uh, which would be six hours forty-five minutes of running uh would be her next uh time slot when she needed to have done 37 miles, I think. So she's probably gonna be well inside that. Uh and on schedule, well ahead of schedule to get a hundred done in the 20 hours, but obviously we're way out at the moment being six hours into the event.
SPEAKER_05Who am I with? Hi there, I'm Chris Sutherland. Okay, Chris, and who are you crowing for? I'm cruelling for Dave Shaw, or otherwise known as Run Raw. Yeah, so all the way from Bonnie, Scotland.
SPEAKER_03Excellent, you come all the way down here, yeah.
SPEAKER_05Whereabouts in Scotland? So we're just um just out of Glasgow, uh Loch Lomont. Oh man's side. Yeah, absolutely. Excellent.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, and you decided to come down here and run on a flat track or you I know exactly.
SPEAKER_05He has that's his that's his jab, not mine.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, and I just saw you putting a sign out there of encouragement. Yeah, tell us what that's about.
SPEAKER_05Yeah, so I brought the whiteboard down, and we've got a um we thread going on Facebook of everybody back home wanting to send messages of good luck and motivation. So every few hours I'm mixing up the message and putting them. So that's one from New Zealand that I've just updated there. But his kids have put some on, his mum's got one to go on, and yeah, just lots of different ones just as the guys are running around. And has he done many of these before? Yeah, he's done a few, yeah, he's done a few hundred K's. Um I think he's got a bit of unfinished business, which is why he's back now. But he's um he's going really, really well. So yeah, he's has he got a target or just get it done? He's got a target. He wanted to do I think 167 miles was his target. Wow. So that's what we're that's what we're hoping for. So um, but he's smashing it, he's he's bang on track, he's totally consistent right now, totally consistent, um, and yeah, he's has all gone going to van so far. Excellent. And what's he fuelling on? So he's on um Martin's, he's got Morton Gels, um, some of the Morton mix, he's got high five gels, tailwinds, that endurance. I've never used that before, but he's got some of that raspberry stuff in then an assortment of vegan snacks. He's a he's he's a vegan, so yeah, so we've just got to make sure he's got that. So it's you've got some savory stuff, because that's all sugar, isn't it? Yeah, well that's right. So he's got well, the flat jack sugar as well, isn't it? We've got um he's got some noodles and stuff for later on, bread and peanut butter as well. Um, we might try and get him a vegan pizza from the V stall over out in the park, so um, yeah, that's a kind of that's a kind of plan for later on, yeah. Brilliant.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, well, best of luck with it. Thank you very much. We'll probably see you later on.
SPEAKER_05Out in the dark, we'll still be here till we're gonna do it. Well, it won't be dark, will it? Get the front lights on, yeah. I know we won't. I know, but yeah, great event, eh? So yeah, really good. So yeah, yeah, enjoying us so far.
SPEAKER_03Nice event. Yeah, cheers. Thanks, thank you.
SPEAKER_16Well up Julian. We're going, Hannah. All right. All right. What an in. We're going, Stefan.
SPEAKER_03What you're hearing 56K is a recording check of the numbers that are coming over.
SPEAKER_16Run an in.
SPEAKER_03The line as they're coming through.
SPEAKER_16What on Kevin?
SPEAKER_03And this is the human side of the check. There's a really good one race results service, which has a great live feed, but there's always a human backup to it. And you just heard Hannah go through calling me for a 40-mile pit stop. So I'm gonna have to go and do that in a minute.
SPEAKER_16Hannah.
SPEAKER_03Right, Hannah, yeah.
SPEAKER_16Well Luke. I am good stuff. Scott 51.6. What a Michael!
SPEAKER_14Thank you.
SPEAKER_03So you can hear their distance updates as well and checks as it's going through. John is the 75-year-old chap who's still doing it.
SPEAKER_1660.4k. Fantastic. Martin. 74k.
SPEAKER_03Can I ask your name?
SPEAKER_02My name's Rushivan.
SPEAKER_03Rush me van? Yeah. Excellent. And and you've been doing this long with the Shri Chemoy?
SPEAKER_02Well, I've been um part of the Shri Chapoy marathon team since 2004. And uh when it was at Tutin Beck, I used to be one of the lap counters when you used to, this is before all the chip timing. Literally manual counting. So each lap counter used to have four or five runners. I used to put their times down and calculate the lap times all in one go as well. So then I progressed in running by moving on into ultras, and then I started to do the 24-hour races as well. So I saw from both sides just running on uh on a 400-meter track and seeing the the volunteers and also being a volunteer do running lap temperature.
SPEAKER_03So that's really interesting. So did you come into running from volunteering to start with?
SPEAKER_02Before I joined the Shri Chamoy Centre, I I'd always enjoyed running, but with Shri Chamoy, he advocated um the run-in, and he was a great exponent of ultra running and the concept of self-transcendence to go beyond what you think you're capable of. And this is what the something like this, the 24-hour race can can achieve. So it's it's it's basically you trying to achieve best you can. So and it's in its simplest form, although people will say, Well, you know, just don't you get bored running round a track, but there's so much going on. I mean, I will I didn't ever use any sort of aids like um music. I always enjoyed running and being aware of my surroundings, and with a 400-metre track, you're just aware of the change in temperature, the light, you know, how you're feeling, body, anything tight to consciously relax, thinking about when your next food break is, you know, when your treat comes up and break the race down. So I used to cope with 24 hours by breaking it down to every three hours. Brilliant. So it's you just chunk the race, really. And um someone always told me, like, if you want to get the the the the benchmark for a 24-hour race was 100 miles, you know. If you got 100 miles, it it was it was great. So try to get to 100k by the 12-hour mark, and then you could you were reasonably uh expect to achieve the 100 miles. And when I done my first 24-hour race must be I don't think about 2007 or 2008. So there would be very few like ordinary runners rather than the runners getting the distance for the Great Britain and I think the Wales. Yeah, yeah. There'd be very few runners getting over that hundred miles, but over the years, more and more runners are w just getting over the 100 miles, which is a huge achievement, really. It's burnt down.
SPEAKER_03And what's the furthest you've been in the 24th hour?
SPEAKER_02Uh 114. That was in in Basel. That was put on by the Street Chamoy. Uh good stuff. Marathon team there. Right. But the previous year I had to withdraw with shin sprinkles, so I was determined to go back to correct that and had a really positive, great experience, and I got my PB there, so it was yeah. But whenever I'd done the the London Tutin Beck race, I always got over 100, so I was always pleased with that. And I was had one bad experience. I came in it injured, and in the first hour, I knew it was going to be a tough race. I was carrying a injury, and I knew this was going to be a slightly different experience, so it's easy to like, well, shall I pull out, or is it achievable to continue and try to go on? But I just took each hour as it came and like got a next down, and I'll do the next down and do the next down. Before I knew it, I was up to 23 hours, and I just that year just got over 100 101 miles. Oh, brilliant. So it just teaches you to keep going. Totally different experiences, and you think once you've done one 24-hour race, it gets easier, but you have various different experiences. Just so many variables involved. Excellent. Some races you can have like great, but it's brilliant, and then some races where things go wrong in the first half, it's very difficult to make up those m miles. You push and push, and that's sometimes the wrong way. So you just like relax and have a slightly different experience.
SPEAKER_03Fantastic. Thanks. That's really good. Thank you very much for all that inside impact. And also on behalf of the competitors, and I was one last year, thanks for doing this so well.
SPEAKER_02Well, well, we we always enjoy putting on races because Shri Chamoy advocated all his students to put on races, and we put on hundreds of races worldwide, and you probably know at the moment there's the um in New York, there's the 3,100 mile race going on, which is hard. Yeah, which is I think they're on day 22 now, day 21. Yeah, and that's around a 0.8 of a mile loop.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, that's a different world altogether.
SPEAKER_02But everyone has their own personal challenges. Yeah, you know, a twenty-four-hour race is no joke.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, no, okay. Thank you very much! Seven hours in and forty miles covered, and Hannah had her first stop and sat in the chair for can't have been more five or six minutes. Um change had a change of shoes and consumed half a sandwich and some ginger cake that my wife Jill made. Okay, and now with a big are you a group of friends or family or both. Friends and family, brilliant. And who who are you supporting?
SPEAKER_06Jack Goldsmith.
SPEAKER_03Jack Goldsmith, okay, and what's he hoping to do?
SPEAKER_07He wants to do two hundred kilometres, but we don't know if that's ambitious or not. We have confidence in him, he can do it.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, good, so good support. It looks like this is gonna be a bit of a party later on. There's about seven or eight people. The gin is already out and pims and beer. So, yeah, yeah, this is gonna be the place to be later on, isn't it? So tell us a bit more about um was it Jack? Sorry, yeah. Tell us a bit more about his running background.
SPEAKER_06Um I think Jack started running seriously about two or three years ago, and since then he's just been he's achieved so much, right? He did he did a hundred miles last year in Snowden, and he's done 200k races this year, so he's had lots of preparation, and then this is his final race of the year.
SPEAKER_03Excellent. Was that UTS, the Snowden one, do you know? Yeah, GB Ultra. Oh, GB Ultra's one, yeah. Excellent, really good. So he's fairly new to Ultra, but he's getting it in now, yeah. Brilliant.
SPEAKER_06Well, compared to Snowden, this should be a piece of cake, right? Definitely renovation, nothing, yeah.
SPEAKER_11Yeah, yeah, this should be really easy.
SPEAKER_03This is all about what's up here, though, isn't it?
SPEAKER_11Yeah, yeah, that's the worry.
SPEAKER_03Yeah. Well, don't all get too drunk, so he's got some support tonight. Thank you very much. Cheers.
SPEAKER_15Hannah, James, Robin, and Jack. Got you Dean, got you David, got you, Joe. Got you, Stefan, got you, Kevin, got you, Dougie. Got you, Lucy, got you David, got you, Luke. Got you, Darren, and Adam. Adam on 249. Got you, Will, got you Grant. Got you, Martin, got you, Julian, got you, Phil. Got you there, Kate. Got you, Darren, Emo, Ian, and Jane. Got you, Jason, Ben, and Paula. 300 laps. 300 laps, 120k, 74.5 lines. Go on, give me my less number.
SPEAKER_13215. 215. Oh, that's oh, that's okay.
SPEAKER_01Got you Sidarkan.
SPEAKER_03Another track side update after nine hours on Hannah's progress. Um, she completed 50 miles of her 100 mile effort that she's going for. Um, nine minutes inside her schedule, uh, and her schedule had 15 minutes worth of padding in it, so she's about 24 minutes up on where she needed to be uh to be on target to get inside 20 hours for the hundred, so she's well inside that at the moment. Um, obviously, there's going to be a bit of a slowing down process gradually, but she's been lapping very consistently anywhere, sort of round about the 224-230 mark. You know, sometimes a bit slower, depends on what uh her walking lap is, but she's been sticking to the 30-minute run and one lap walk, which is pretty amazing to keep that up. Um, everybody else is doing really well, actually. There's uh quite a bit of uh activity around the track all the time at the moment. The floodlights have been on since about half six, seven o'clock. Um, and the runners are all doing really well. Uh you know, some of them are metronomic, they don't change their pace at all, they just keep going. Others are doing a run-walk strategy and sort of going a little bit faster in their runs at times. Um but one of the main things I found where I've crewed for Lizzie Gatherer in the past for um backyards is that um you only get to see your athlete once every sort of 45 minutes to an hour slot normally, um, and you see your athlete every two and a half to three minutes on this. Um often they just run past, or you know, it's a little bit of encouragement, or but it's amazing how more often you get asked for something. Uh with this. Hannah's using two uh 25mm water bottles. Um and uh so they're a lot smaller than the normal. Um I mean sorry, 250 mils, I mean. Um she's normally alternating orange, coke, or water in them. Um so they're getting filled a bit more often than you would normally have to. Obviously, that's an advantage of having crew trackside all the time. Um, she's been consistently eating, uh keeping things down, no stomach issues or anything like that. So, all going to plan so far. Um not sure when the next time I'll be on. It's now quarter to ten. Um, so we'll be heading off into the deeper part of the night soon. Probably get back on about midnight. I'm actually at the finished start line for the 12 o'clock midnight turnaround, and one chap is refusing to cross the line, otherwise he'll get a second quick one. They're making him go on, so he's got to do another lap before he turns around. There we are, number 51's the first one to get lucky and turn around immediately. Well done, everybody!
SPEAKER_08Turn it around!
SPEAKER_03Well done, everybody!
SPEAKER_08Well done. You're amazing!
SPEAKER_03Madame Hammer for my done.
SPEAKER_01Big turnaround Well done, guys.
SPEAKER_03Well done, Charlotte. Brilliant! Halfway!
SPEAKER_08Great job, well done!
SPEAKER_03Great job, Hannah! Halfway, well done! A bit of a midnight update then, so that's 12 hours in, as you'll have heard with the turnaround stuff, um, but an update on Hannah at the midnight hour. I can feel the power, wherever that song goes. Um she has done 66 miles approximately, which is a flipping good effort on the schedule that she was after. She's definitely slowing. Um, she's just a little bit behind her schedule now, um, but it's to be expected as we enter into the night time, and she's only had uh well, two chair stops, but they didn't amount to more than about seven or eight minutes together. Um and she's still in the second female position, the the woman in the lead um is quite away in front, about 16k actually, but um she's been having a bad spell. I notice her complaining about feeling sick with her crew, um and that's the way these things go, it's so hard to manage it. And I think Hannah's doing really well getting in what she is getting in, um, but it's definitely slowing the input of carbs. Um, not surprised at all. I don't know how she survived some what she's had so far. Um but it's still working, it's still chirpy enough and keeping moving. And it's now half past twelve. Um it's still a bit breezy. It's certainly got quite chilly if you're just sitting around or wandering about like I am. Um but Hannah's still running round uh with her shoulders out in a running singlet. So um and every time I keep thinking, is she cold? But she's not, and so whatever keeps the motor burning is good, I guess, as long as she keeps her body temperature at the right temperature where she feels regulated enough to keep up the effort, that'll be great. I'm sure that she'll need a layer on come around about two o'clock when the old depletion sets in a bit more. Anyway, enough waffling. Who's crewing for her father? Um, and how's he doing, Evie?
SPEAKER_00He's doing good. We're we're on track, timing's going well, the fueling's maybe tailing off a little bit, but it is 2 a.m. So that's expected. But I think all in all, pretty positive. And it stayed dry.
SPEAKER_03So I think that's a good thing.
SPEAKER_00It's very good.
SPEAKER_03And so has he got um a Target? Has he done one of these before?
SPEAKER_00Um he's not quite done these uh the track ones, but Target is definitely a hundred miles, and we're looking like a good, good on track for that, definitely. Um, but yeah, I think getting getting it up to sunrise would be nice and uh getting into a hundred miles by hopefully 20 22 hours, I think.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, the when the sun comes up or there's a bit of light, it changes everybody's attitude to the race.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, definitely.
SPEAKER_03Here he comes now, number 95, what's your dad's name?
SPEAKER_00Adam Harry Beau. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Adam wants some Harry Bow. You've been told you've been you need to eat. Yeah.
SPEAKER_14Thank you. Okay, go well.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, he's off and away, and Evie's that's good that you came and asked for something.
SPEAKER_00Yes, well, that's definitely positive news.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, so what's he what's he done in the past?
SPEAKER_00I think most done done lots of things, but had a bit of a break from ultra running, and then last year he did the Comrades Uprun in just under nine hours. Oh wow. And I seconded that, which was one of the best days of my life, and I wasn't running, I just was enjoying and supporting him, and he he did what he wanted to do, which was get less than nine hours, and I had the best day ever.
SPEAKER_03Brilliant. So, had you been to South Africa before?
SPEAKER_00I hadn't, it was my first time. We stayed with some family friends, and they they had they drove us around, and and um yeah, just an amazing day. The atmosphere for a comrades is just absolutely unreal, and the the music and the people and the colour and the sound is just nothing that I've ever experienced any other event. It's amazing.
SPEAKER_03That's fantastic. I'm glad coming from you as a as a non-runner because I've heard so much about it. And there are actually groups that run along singing as well, aren't there?
SPEAKER_00Yeah, uh there's bands, there's I just One War to one Coke, please.
SPEAKER_14Yeah.
SPEAKER_03That was my call from Hannah. One water, one coke.
SPEAKER_00Yeah, it's um I even as a non-runner, I genuinely just it's like a it's just an experience. You it like takes you in. You know, I don't run, but just the the people and the event and the passion, and so many people come from so far and really give it their best. It's it's amazing. Really amazing.
SPEAKER_03I'm gonna have to break off now, Evie, because I've as you heard, got a command. Well, best of luck with it. Hope your dad achieves his hundred.
SPEAKER_00Thank you very much.
SPEAKER_03I'll probably speak to you later and see what happens at the end.
SPEAKER_00Perfect, thank you very much.
SPEAKER_03A quick uh 210 in the morning update on Hannah. Um, she's actually spot on her schedule now. Uh, and as I look in the rear view mirror, she's running past, which is a rather strange thing. Um, I'm sat in the car, obviously, and she's just past the rear view mirror. She's um yeah, 75 miles she did in uh by uh 210, which is 14 hours and 10 minutes into the race, um, and right on schedule. Um she is still incrementally slowing, but still right in there to get inside this 200 that she's aiming at. Um it's a real shame. The girl that was in front, it was about 16k in front of Hannah, um, has had a really bad time, and I think's been quite ill. Uh has been on and off the track with a jacket on but walking. Um, and Hannah is less than a mile behind her now on the leaderboard, which would put Hannah first female. Um, but Hannah is being hotly pursued by a number 64 who I can't remember her name now. Um I'll update that when I have it, but she's going really well, very steadily. Um little smile on her face, got her headphones in, listening to music or something that's keeping her entertained, and she's motoring along quite nicely. So we'll we'll see. It could be quite interesting. I'm not sure where Hannah's head will be when she hits the um hundred mile mark, whether she wants to continue or not. Clearly, that'll have to be established when we get to that point. But it makes it quite an interesting race at the moment. I am just stalling because I want to give Paula Bedford a shout out, who is currently in third place. In fact, as I look at this, Hannah has now gone into the lead. Um Immo Body, who um was in the lead by a long way, as I said, has now done 121.6k, and Hannah has done 122.4k, and Paul of Bedford has done 119.2k, um, and she's closing in on Hannah all the time quite steadily. So that's the top three. I'm actually told, or have been told, that Immo Body, who was in the lead, has actually done the three peaks, the national three peaks, uh running in between them as well. So she's obviously got what it takes, um obviously clearly demonstrates that track running's a different thing altogether. Um I don't know, who can say? Anything can happen on the day. Uh but it was just an interesting fact. I thought that uh she must be one of the few females that have actually achieved that feature.
SPEAKER_13Well done, Paula. Paula, 142 kilometres. Well done. Nice one, David. And Charlotte is back. Good one. Well done, Charlotte. Hope you're feeling better.
SPEAKER_07Thank you.
SPEAKER_13Great stuff.
SPEAKER_15Tiniest.
SPEAKER_13Nice one, then 132Ks. Gotcha, Robin. Got you, Grant. Gotcha, Michael. Nice one, Michael. You're on 140.8 Ks.
SPEAKER_03It's now uh 13 minutes past five on Sunday morning. Oh, and here comes a fox coming straight past me right next to the track. Doesn't care less that I'm here. I'm literally within six feet of it as it goes past the long jump track. Saw him here last year. I don't know if it's the same one, but he seems to mooch about for runner's food. Um got a side track there. Uh you'll have heard uh Paula Bedford being read out there, having achieved 142 kilometres, um and she is currently chasing down Hannah, and Hannah's on 143.2k. Um there is actually now less than a K between the two of them, but I think Hannah's gonna be caught eventually by Paula, but she's been really going well, keeping it consistent, keeping moving. The real focus is obviously getting inside this 20 hours for the hundred miles if possible. Um which she's got till eight o'clock to do, which is a you know, another two and three quarter hours worth of work. And even when we Well, the point we're at now, they've still got just under um seven hours to go, which is pretty incredible when you think of it. I mean, you see uh some of the sites that are going round here, a lot, a heck of a lot of walk run walking going on now. Lots doing more walking than running. Uh one chap going past in a really pink uh mullet type affair, uh, which is a wig. Uh number 48. Actually, that chap is being crewed by his two lads, two young lads. His wife is here, but she's asleep in the van, and they've been up all night crewing him. Which is pretty impressive. And here comes Hannah just passing now, and she's actually eating and drinking. She's probably washing it down, trying to get it down. She did have a sandwich stop and ate about half a sandwich uh a good hour or so ago. Um, and is struggling with food, but she looks like she's trying to keep it going in terms of calorie intake. So that's pretty much where we are. It's actually really cold if you're crewing. I know it sounds daft, but it's still quite breezy, and we're at that point of the morning where it gets to the coldest. Um and I have actually got five layers on and have been thinking flippin' eck. I'm in the middle of London with five layers on. What's it gonna be like up on the Pennine Way in January? But anyway, that's another story. Hannah update is that she has completed 96.436 miles. Um, so she's got an hour and now two minutes to get the last bit done to get inside um to get a hundred miles done inside the 20 hours, which will be fantastic. I've been not sweating because I've been freezing, but but um been very worried about the amount of walking that's been going on and uh the running has been getting less and less, which you would expect, but Hannah seems to be all over judging the pace of it. Um she keeps re referencing her watch and where she is in terms of distance covered, so she's knows what she's doing, but it makes it quite stressful to watch, but I'm pretty sure now, unless there's some catastrophe in the next hour, which I don't think there will be, um I think she's gonna do it. You're gonna do it, well done, Hannah. Yeah, they'll tell you when you're there.
SPEAKER_01Hannah, 200 metres to the hundred miles.
SPEAKER_03Well done, Hannah! Excellent, brilliant. So she crossed the hundred mile mark in 19 hours forty-seven minutes and fifth for about 45 seconds. So she was 12 or 13 minutes inside and she's still going, and I'm deliberately not going over to the chair because I want to see what happens if she keeps going and comes back round to here. I just think if I'm there, she's gonna um tell me she's packing it in. But I'm hoping that she keeps going because she needs to uh put on some decent mileage onto this now. It's a 24 hour event after all. After the excitement of achieving a hundred, of course, Hannah went past the chair and came back round to me. Um and after a 15 minute sit-down, a cup of coffee, some food to eat, re fuel um uh restock her hydration flasks. Um she was off again uh after wanting to become second female in the race. It's probably unlikely that she will catch um the woman who's currently in the lead. But also there's a little matter of some old gits 107 and a half miles um that may or may not be at Club Record thinking about it. But um she's after getting that, I'm sure. Anyway, uh probably an update towards the end now because we're nearly there with it. There's another um three hours and forty minutes to go. Uh but most of the main excitement's over, it's just now to see how far Hannah can actually go and set her personal twenty-four hour record. And there's quite a party atmosphere actually, as you can hear. And then they put that down at their rear foot, and that is then measured from when they cross the line to get an exact measurement of the distance they do in 24 hours. Oh, brilliant. Excellent, excellent.
SPEAKER_12So, first of all, big, big, big congratulations to all you runners who saw the twenty-four honor race through to the end. You are amazing, you inspired us like crazy, and you're yeah, tremendous, tremendous congratulations. Secondly, to the awesome crew that you brought with you. You guys made this way. Thank you so much. Big round of applause to you. You you have no idea how much you you build an atmosphere, and that helps um the inside um all the runners and us as well. So big congratulations. And thirdly, I want to say a big thank you to members of the Shrechim Marathon team and volunteers who have served you so well. Um, and they're thank you. So we are gonna So our winner today in a fantastic 150.9 miles, 242. And in second place, David Shaw from Rumble with 138.5 miles and two hundred and twenty-three kilometers And in third place Um with a hundred and thirty miles and two hundred and ten kilometers, yes, go. Um first um first woman the women's rates um meaning of a hundred and sixty months and a hundred and eighty with all of them. Second place was Hannah Hall with one hundred and twelve months, man, Hannah. Yeah, and our third lady was Charlotte Smith with ninety miles and a hundred and forty six kilometers.
SPEAKER_03Hannah to uh pop round and have a summary discussion on the uh outcome of the Shri Chamoy 24-hour track race. How are you, Hannah?
SPEAKER_09Uh a little bit sleepy. Um operating on about half a brain cell, so I will try and make sense. I'm not sure you're any better though, Kev, are you? We're both a little short on sleep over the weekend. Yeah.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, I did get well, you crushed in the car and then crushed at home and just crushed everywhere by the sound of it.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, pretty much fell asleep during everything yesterday afternoon.
SPEAKER_03How are the feet? Because you had some feet issues during the race, one or two blisters.
SPEAKER_09Uh yeah, I had I knew I had one blister on my right foot that I stopped and changed shoes for. Um, but then as a bonus surprise, when I took off my left shoe at the end of the race, I had two spectacular blisters. Um, which to be fair I didn't even feel. So uh they're a bit ouchy today, but that's okay.
SPEAKER_03So, how was that for you? A whole new experience?
SPEAKER_09It was um really, really good fun. I'm very glad I did it. So thank you for uh inspiring me to do that one. Uh it was crazy, it felt crazy thinking about doing it, and it felt even crazier when we started. In fact, I was a little bit giggly to start with because we started off all just shuffling around this track, and I thought this is bonkers, um, because obviously it is. Um but brilliant as well. I think um for me it's the first time I've done a race that's round and round. Um, so just being in such close proximity to the other runners was really special. Um, you got to know people, got to know their stories, what their race goals were, and I think you all get quite invested in each other. Um, some great running camaraderie. Uh seeing other people suffering and pushing through is all quite inspiring. Some of them from really early on, obviously struggling and then still still getting it done. Um, and the supporters were incredible. We were we were really lucky. They were um yeah, there were people turning up in fancy dress, people bringing stereos, taking requests for music, uh, and the whole organization was really, really impressive. Uh and special mention to the lap counters. So every runner had um a human person lap counter uh in case the technology failed. Um and these guys would uh give us a cheer literally every time we passed them, which is quite frequently on a 400-meter track. Um so yeah, I mean what a what a job to do. I think probably the only thing weirder than running round and round for 24 hours is being the person counting someone else going round and round for 24 hours. But they did a they did a really, really great job. Um really appreciate the the time they gave up to be there and just count idiots running around in circles.
SPEAKER_03And how about you personally? Because you had a spectacular result. Just tell us about it.
SPEAKER_09Uh so I I had entered because I wanted to get a personal best over 100 miles. Um so I wanted a sub-20 hundred and I was really happy to do that. I didn't I w did I scrape it in? I don't know. Comfortable. I would say comfortable.
SPEAKER_03Very well calculated. You had great splits. Uh it'll have already been mentioned on the podcast, but you were twenty-four minutes up at fifty. And then you finished about twelve or thirteen minutes inside. So nineteen forty eight or something.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, I'd done I think I'd um written myself a schedule and worked out the splits. Um and the only time that went a little bit wrong was where the recorded mileage on my And wasn't accurate because of it being in such tight circles. So I I had thought I was more ahead than I was, and then I was getting stressed halfway through that I thought I'd lost more time than I had. So actually it was fine and I was kind of on schedule. It's just that kind of mental thing that was on my mind. But yeah, I think it went went pretty well. My only my biggest problem for that race, and it's really unusual for me, I just could not get food down. I had some uh unpleasant stomach issues. Uh so I pretty I didn't eat very much at all in the second half because I felt like if I was gonna eat, it was gonna cause me more trouble than not eating. So uh I'm normally pretty good at stuffing my face with biscuits for an entire 24 hours, but uh on this occasion sadly not.
SPEAKER_03Do you think that's um track related? Uh because in terms of an Ultra you would have more walk-in breaks, like uphill stuff, getting food down, going at a slower pace, and aid stations. I know I was the aid station every two or three minutes, but um it's different, isn't it? A different type of consumption.
SPEAKER_09Yeah, I think I think all of that. And I I had felt a little bit under the weather like the the two or three days beforehand, but then I thought I was just being taper paranoid. Yeah. Like my tummy my stomach hadn't been a hundred percent, and I'd felt like a little bit like I was fighting off a cold, but then I was just like, just stop whining, you're just being paranoid uh because you're about to do a race. But there was maybe a little bit of that, um, as well as the everything that you've mentioned, um, or just bad luck, I I don't know. Um but yeah, uh maybe I'd have to think mm slightly differently about my race nutrition next time. But it was, you know, it didn't Next time. No, delete that bit. I didn't say I didn't say that. Um on the other side, on the uh on the other hand, the race highlights for me were definitely what did you get me? Coffee and an apple strudel from the cafe. Oh yeah, yeah, yeah. Yeah, and an ice lolly. That was that was like the most blessed four laps of of going round a track I've ever had on the Sunday morning when the sun came out, and Kev got me a lemonade ice lolly from the cafe.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, shout out to the Pear Tree Cafe in Batissey Park. It's fabulous, it really is nice, and they do some good coffee and cake. And the lemonade ice bar came from ice lolly came from the cafe at the track. But yeah, all good stuff. It was lovely watching people going round eating their Calippos in the sun with that party atmosphere.
SPEAKER_09Well, it was very, very much appreciated. I was very lucky to have Kev there uh crewing for me. Um I think we did we made a pretty good team. Um and actually everyone's support crews were brilliant. Uh, the level of support and um just banter and um lovely, lovely community spirit. Um, lots of people getting quite invested in everybody else's run um made it really special. And towards the end, like the last hour, just everything sort of rose to fever pitch, and it was a bit of a party, wasn't it? It was a good thing. Someone bought a stereo, they were taking requests, there were people in fancy dress, there were families there and kids there, and um yeah, one lady said one lady said to me, I've been watching you all night, you're doing so well, I'm gonna cry when you finish.
SPEAKER_01I was like, Please don't say that, I'm gonna cry.
SPEAKER_09It was just like a giant running lover, and it was yeah, it was really good fun.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, a lot of people stayed for the whole thing or went away and returned at different times, and they get really invested in the runners. Um, yeah, it can be quite emotional seeing what people want to achieve. So, um, I'm not gonna hold you to whether you'll ever do another track 100, except to say that you have run your not only a hundred PB, your was it a 50 PB, I guess, as well.
SPEAKER_09A PB, 100 mile PB.
SPEAKER_03And a 24 hour PB. Well done. Excellent. So have you had any thoughts about what is next, or are you having a break or any longer plans?
SPEAKER_09Uh I may have one more little race booked in for the year. So I'm going back to do um UK Ultras 100 miles uh on the South Downs in December, uh, which last year was the one that we did in the storm. I have um spoken to the race director and requested that we are storm free this year. So we'll see what happens. But uh that will be my tenth hundred miler. So uh I thought it'd be a nice one to uh see the year out in. But uh yeah, just be just be one for fun, hopefully.
SPEAKER_03Yeah, those that um I don't know what episode number it was, but we covered that off, didn't we, with storming round with you and Lizzie, I think, as well, wasn't it? Yeah. So great, great to have you on again, Hannah. Fantastic performance, well done. Really pleased, really enjoyed being there. I'm glad I was there for the weekend. And thanks very much for coming on the podcast.
SPEAKER_09Oh, thank you for having me back again, and for all the support, really appreciate it.