Ranger Ultras 2025 South & (North*)
I'd entered this race at fairly short notice, but despite this I managed to get a bad dose of gastroenteritis about four weeks before the event. It took a couple of weeks to be over the worst of it, but I still did not really feel right until a few days before the start. As a result I knew my fitness was already way down, but more so because of the illness. The aim was to just enjoy the day out and to see what happens. Day 1 was 50k and Day 2 is 42k. Fifth from right (including the two standing side on) in all black. I took a very conservative approach at the start and sat back in around 8th. Over time people came together into small groups and at its height there were six of us, sometimes running together and at other times it was more fragmented. To say the course was wet underfoot is a bit of an understatement, the amount of rain we have had over the last couple of months turned the paths and tracks into little more than a bog resulting in my slipp...