2024 Ranger Ultra Pennine Bridleway 270km
Since the Spine Race in January I've had a pretty torrid time with a knee injury developing at the beginning of March. It came from nowhere but resulted in my knee being painful to the extent that all physical activity was off the cards for over a month. Even with all of my injury troubles in the past I have always been able to do some form of activity e.g. cycling or cross training but this time the pain was too severe. Only around the beginning of April did my knee troubles begin to subside and I took a gamble in entering the PB270, but my expectations were low. It was very much a 50/50 call and although the injury flared up a bit after I had entered it eventually settled down again. I lined up at the start mostly with the mind set about completing and discounting any expectations from the race. From the off my legs felt dead but I was not unduly surprised due to the lack of activity over the preceding six weeks. After a couple of km I took the lead and steadily built up a s