So today was the first long run, in fact as it turned out it was the furthest I have ever run, I had only set out to run 11 miles but wanted to get to Motley hill for my turn around.

I started off fairly solidly but by the time I was at mile two my legs started to ache, I put this down to the fact I had not run for a few days and pushed on, I carried on ticking off the miles and was soon at the Riverside country park. I generally felt o.k. Which is surprising as I was trying out a new nutrition strategy (Tailwind), I would normally have taken a gel by this time but although the legs were tired, I genuinely felt I didn,t need to.

At the start of the run I had packed two UD hard flasks which had Tailwind in, and as a backup a Solomon soft flask with water, all packed up in my new AK race vest ( review coming soon).

I got to mile 9 at Motney hill, and it was the time to turn around and head back, as I started back I realized that the two UD flasks I was using were nearly empty and would not last the distance back ( bugger ), I had estimated that each flask would last an hour and at this point I was two hours in and nearly empty, oh well all I could do was plod on and get back as best as I could, I managed to get half way back on what nutrition I had, in now swapped over to the backup water which managed to get me back home.

A quick walk around the block as a warm down, and I was done. For me this was a hard run as it was the furthest I have ever gone also I am still struggling with my fitness which added to the struggle; however done is done and it was now shower and relax.