Hit the wall!!

[Bazza1234]

HIT THE WALL with a big bang today!!! Went out at 6AM to do 24k on a new route. Have fairly easily done 20K a couple of weeks ago - but today underestimated the hills along this route, the heat 25C and the humidity 85%+ and didn't carry/drink enough water . Got to 19K and had to call the ambulance (my wife) to come and get me!!!! Have never run to exhaustion before - now I know what it feels like!!!

[Dunder2004 Graduate10]

Rest up, Bazza and put it down to experience. Did you have any sustenance aside from your water?

I still remember my legs momentarily going to jelly when I hit a steep hill towards the end of my first 19K run. Will never know for sure but I think nutrition was the issue - it certainly wasn't the heat/humidity.

[Bazza1234 Graduate10 in reply to Dunder2004]

No - I can normally run for up to 20K without any additional sustenance apart from sports type drink . I really think it was the hills that got me this morning!! I have been training on the flat - for a flat race. Didn't realise just what hills were in this new course !

[Bazza1234 Graduate10 in reply to Bazza1234]

But - although it was officially a DNF - I feel that it was a very hard and therefore good run, the last before my two week tapering

[Anniemurph Graduate10 in reply to Bazza1234]

Yep - I think you have nailed it there. A good run. Enjoy your unique tapering

[Runon Graduate10]

Well done Bazza - I think my exhaustion point is a lot less than 19K with or without hills. That's a brilliant effort. And you're lucky to have a personal ambulance driver

[misswobble Graduate10]

I hope you are ok now Baz. A set of circumstances conspired against you. Probably with some water and snacks you would have been fine. the temperature certainly did you no favours

Are you having a second shot at it?

[Bazza1234 Graduate10 in reply to misswobble]

Nah - next run of that length will be the HM on 09 April

[Oldfloss Administrator Graduate10]

Hope you have recovered now Bazza... sometimes things happen to just put us back in touch with ourselves.. you know what it feels like.. so.. probably you may be more aware next time.. ?

[ancientrunner Graduate10]

Rest up Bazza - I certainly admire those conditions you run in.

[Millsie-J]

Hope you are all good again now Bazza.

Three weeks ago i came back from a run, parked up on the drive and said to my hubby. 'Ive hit the wall'. He was agog and said, ' I thought you were only doing a short run'!

What I actually meant was i had hit the wall on the drive as I pulled in 😮😩😨

[RainbowC in reply to Millsie-J]

Oops! :/

[AnneDroid Graduate10]

Respect though. DNF or not, that was a great achievement.

[skysue16 Graduate10]

Oh dear, hope you are ok now with some rest. I couldn't run at all with that heat - and hills too, phew hard work.

[Bazza1234 Graduate10]

Upon reflection, I feel like I have learned a valuable lesson with this. Over the summer , I have lost a lot of sweat - most times my running shirt has been sopping wet after a run of almost any length - but yesterday for the first time ever, even my running shorts were dripping wet with perspiration. So I can see now that although I did not feel thirsty as such during any part of the 19K that I finished, I really did lose a LOT of water. My HM is only just over 2 weeks away and I can't see the climatic conditions changing much over that time - so I am really going to stop at every watering point along the course and drink regardless of how I am "feeling"