That's right just three weeks!
The penultimate challenge is next week which will be the most challenging of them all, the Winter 100 run.
The Winter 100 is a 100 mile continuous trail race based out of the village of Streatley on the river Thames. The course reflects the shape of a cross and takes runners on a series of 4 different 25 mile out and back spurs using sections of both the Ridgeway and Thames Path National Trails.
Runners will depart from Streatley at 10am on Saturday 30th November and make their way on the Western Spur to Little Wittenham on the first out and back section on the Thames Path. On returning to Streatley, runners will be faced with the more challenging Northern Spur of the course, out to Swyncombe Farm on the Ridgeway before returning to Streatley a second time. Spur 3 takes runners west on the Ridgeway to Chain Hill before returning to Streatley for the final leg on the Thames Path to Reading and return for their 100 mile finish.
The race starts at Streatley and returns there every 25 miles. The course is designed as a series of 4 out and backs making use of Streatleys unique position, at the confluence of the Thames Path and Ridgeway National Trails.
Both trails are maintained by the National Trail Trust together with the various county councils and are open year round to the public, routed across a mixture of private land and public footpaths & byways.
The race at first travels to Little Wittenham on the Thames Path, traveling up through Wallingford, crossing the river at Benson Lock and making a turn around at Days Lock, a remote point on the river where there will be a small aid station - before returning to Streatley via the same route.
The second out and back is on the Ridgeway, along the water initially before cutting in land past South and North Stoke, to Swncombe aid station and returning to Streatley once again.
Spur 3 takes runners on the South Westerly Ridgeway path through Bury Down & East Hendred, to Chain Hill aid station and returning to Streatley.
The final section of the course travels east through Whitchurch via the Village Hall aid station and Tilehurst as far as the Waterside Centre on the Thames Path at Reading before heading back to Streatley and the 100 mile finish.
After this I then have 2 weeks before the very last challenge which is a 42 mile row on a rowing machine at the Borough Shopping Parade in Chippenham.
It's crazy to think that I've gone from this at the Country to Capital ultra marathon in January
To this...
Donations are now up and around the £3k mark which is awesome but I'd love to reach that £5k target by the end of the year!
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