I am referring to the notorious LDWA 100,a one hundred mile route that has to be completed within 48 hours without a proper break,held every spring bank holiday weekend.I have only done one,the 1985 Yorkshire Dales 100 which was a real killer taking in Penyghent,Horsehead Pass, and Ingleborough in the first twenty miles.Wild boar fell came at the fifty miles point(interestingly a lot of people quit at this point) followed by Cote Fell at eighty two miles.This last climb as a pig and it left me wondering if the organiser was a sadist.Memories are very blurred but I can recall feeling that my knees were being crushed in a vice at the seventy five miles point,the pain was that bad.Strangely I picked up and felt full of energy once I had got past ninety miles and managed to run at six minute mile pace over the last two miles.
After I had signed in three guys carried me into the showers as I was unable to walk.Think it was to do with relaxing and the body knowing it hadn't got to push itself any further.My time of just under twenty seven hours wasn't bad and it put me in the top twenty.The effects of sleep deprivation and constant movement for more than 24 hours were terrible and it took a couple of weeks to fully recover.
I would encourage anyone to have a go as you don't really know what you are capable of until you try.This hundred is within the capacity of most walkers provided they enter it fully prepared,both physically and mentally.