Picking up the pieces

One positive of pulling out at 36km of the GCM is that I've been able to get back into training to give myself another chance at a marathon this season. I've been asked a lot about what went wrong and the answer is 'I'm not sure'.

Maybe I went off too hard. A few people who have enjoyed my DNF would say this was my problem. Tiger thinks otherwise and logic is with him. I managed to reach 27km during a training run over 1 min quicker and feeling far easier than I did in the race.

Sally collapsed before the end of her HM and had to be put on a drip so it's possible that we were suffering some type of sickness that only impacted us when we put our bodies under pressure.

I could also have suffered from the heat and perhaps I downed too much Endura and too many gels causing my body to crash after a sugar high. Who knows...

I've managed to pick myself up and knocked out a decent 16km in less than 56 mins this morning. I'll be heading to the M7 marathon in 2 weeks to have another go. One thing is for sure; if you don't set the bar high, you'll never know what you're capable of.