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EVENT REPORTRIDGEWAY CHALLENGEhave taken a good half hour. I was, by now, trying tolift my left leg by going on my right leg on tip toeand swinging the left leg through. Thankfullynothing was blistered. I phoned my wife to say I wason my way but “may be some time”. My mum anddad would be at the finish as well. A very nicecouple in a camper van offered me a cup of tea onHackpen Hill, but I declined for fear of seizing upaltogether.Towards the very end of the Ridgeway it is verybadly rutted. To demonstrate why this was so, a 4x4came chugging toward me, bouncing in and outand augmenting the ruts. It took me ages, just tohobble out of his way. I felt like giving the driversome abuse, but a quick glance suggested the sixfoot high and wide brick house wouldn’t take tookindly to it. On top of which my ability to run awaywas somewhat risible – the driver would have hadtime to stop, wash his hulk of a car, check his oil andtyre pressure before walking very slowly over to meto punch my lights out. Saying that, if he’d punchedmy lights out, I’d not be in pain any more.And so off the Ridgeway I sped – like a snail who’dhad a large Christmas dinner with three helpings ofpud and had decided to sleep off his dinner on acomfy sofa. I can’t remember how long I’d got,maybe forty minutes, before midday, which is whatI was aiming for. To add to my woes a number offarm vehicles drove down from a field, so I had toget out of their way as well. A pained expression onmy face may have been mistaken for a dirty look asone of the vans stopped, but I think the driverrealised very quickly as to what state I was in. Heasked if I wanted a lift? The temptation! Oooooh thetemptation! If you’ve read this far, then well done,but I’ll digress a little here if you don’t mind. I oncesaw a programme about SAS training where thegeneral public were invited to have a go if theythought they were hard enough. There was onepoint where the participants were “captured” andput through sleep deprivation which involved beingon your tip toes and stretching to a wall with whitenoise going on in the background. The “prisoners”were then taken to a room for questioning, but theyhad been told only to answer certain questions.Most people survived a few rounds of questioning,but after a while something was put on the tablewhich cracked most of them – they were told that ifthey gave information, they could have….a baconsandwich! Well, the offer of a lift was my baconsandwich. I stood up straight and puffed out mychest (hmmm…) and replied “No thanks, I’m avegetarian!” He drove off. The word “idiot” may havebeen heard, but it could have been a crow singingan aria for all I could tell at this point, pain andfatigue had started to fug the mind.Closer and closer to midday and I could now see myeldest son and wife near the first set of AveburyStones. Hobbling, hobbling. Attempting a quickhobble, but nope, back to slow hobble. Crossed theroad and there was a finish line on the ground. Icould now hear a clock bell chiming dong….dong…dong and I was there. Bang on 24 hours exactly. Cuethe waterworks! Nappy and dummy for Mr Stillion.My mum and dad, children and wife were all there.My son had filmed a bit of the end and I could hearhim asking if I was crying because I was happy or inpain. My other son said that I was crying because Iwas happy AND in pain. A lady from the last checkpoint had come to the finish and congratulated andhugged me and said how worried they all werewhen I’d left.“I was desperate to sitdown but it was toopainful. I ended up lying ina heap on the village hall”<strong>13</strong>2 ULTRA TALES | OCTOBER 2014Sponsored by thehttp://
EVENT REPORTRIDGEWAY CHALLENGEDESCRIBED AS THE HARDEST TWO METRES OF RICHARDS LIFEI was desperate to sit down but it was too painful. Iended up lying in a heap on the village hall floor,trying to eat a bacon sandwich and sip a cup of teasideways. And then I couldn’t get up again. Themedics helped me up and my wife pulled round thecar and I flopped in. No idea how I got out of the carwhen we got home. So, that’s it. My first 86 miler. Ifinished because it was my first race at that distanceand my family were at the finish and my son hadgiven me kind words before the start of the raceabout not giving up. So that’s why I carried on. Inhind-sight, it was extremely stupid to have done soand as much as I don’t regret my actions, I won’t dothat again. I don’t see the point in doing long terminjury for the sake of it. Amazingly, I did loosen upby the next day, but still in a bit of pain. I also feltpretty nauseous. On the good side – no chafing, noblisters either and a cracking t-shirt!I cannot thank everyone involved with this raceenough. From Tim Mitchell the RD, every aid stationvolunteer and all the back room staff who kept themachine very well oiled and updates, well, up todate.RICHARD FEELING PRETTY EXHAUSTED AT THE END<strong>13</strong>3 ULTRA TALES | OCTOBER 2014Sponsored by thehttp://
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