2025 LDWA 100 – Łukasz Finishes

One of the friends I was tracking around the event was Łukasz, who is a naturally very brave person who I’ve obviously inspired over the years. He was starting to tire towards the end, so as a treat for him, I decided that Richard could drive me to the last checkpoint and I’ll walk back. I’d add that Richard didn’t walk back, as it’s three miles and Łukasz and I didn’t have time to wait for him to faff about.

Navigating back, these dangerous looking cows were visible and I’m glad that they were the other side of the fence. It’s fair to say that Łukasz was not finding these three miles the easiest, but he was determined to keep going even though he wondered whether he should have retired earlier. There’s a huge amount of the 100 that is a mental challenge and Łukasz certainly has that resilience. Also known as stubbornness, but that’s fine.

It was only just getting dark, a lot of the entrants walked through two nights, but Łukasz was only really going through one other than these last couple of miles.

I wouldn’t normally take a photo of an entrant worn out, but it’s Łukasz and he’d expect me to.

I of course had a finish beer for him. The on-site medic looked at his feet which weren’t in the poor state that Łukasz had feared which is all to the good.

So ruddy bloody brave, and he was back up on his feet the next day being courageous and strong.