2015 and beyond
08/01/15 19:42
The only race I’ve entered so far for 2015 is the Thames Ring 250 in June. Having finished the Spine and T184 in 2014, I’d like to add to my collection of ‘longest single stage races in the UK’ finishes. I’m not yet sure what my goals for it are. Obviously to finish. But beyond that I’m wary, after over-ambitious goals for T184 left me feeling ‘meh’ about what was actually a decent finish. The main thing I need to do is work out how to do a better job of sleeping. I’ve just ordered a pile of books on the science of sleeping from Amazon...
I’d been hoping to do the Rovaniemi 150 in February, as a step towards one of the long Arctic races. But the timing-tabling gods didn’t look favourably upon me. I’ve got two lectures on Fridays this semester, which makes taking a Friday off to travel to Finland impossible. I’ll carry on buying Winter kit when it’s cheap, and hopefully the timing will work out next year. It’s not the end of the world though, in particular since I haven’t yet worked out how I’m going to manage to take a couple of weeks off in Feb/March for one of the longer races...
Another idea was the Viking Way ultra (which has a cut-off which would seriously test my limits). However it looks like it’s not happening year, so instead I’m thinking about doing the DB24 24 hour trail race as a warm up for the Thames Ring.
Post Thames Ring, it depends how I recover. But I’m pondering the 48 hour race at the British ultrafest in August.