What a way for Simon to celebrate his 60th birthday weekend, walking around in this heat. However, his much younger wife Jane keeps him young and youthful and, if truth be told, I didn’t really ever doubt that he would get round. Simon can be very stubborn, which in normal life can be occasionally inconvenient, but over 100 miles definitely becomes a recognised endurance strategy.
And here he is, at the very reasonable time of just over 34 hours, making Simon the 24th fastest* completion of the event. Given that he’s a walker and not a runner, this was a really quite impressive pace.
Simon and I think that there need to be more pies at checkpoints and he very much deserved this one.
I hope that he enjoys his birthday cake, but completing an event like this shows some considerable style. *-Simon reminds me that he was joint 23rd with Kim…