Still feeling pretty good at this point - if a little hot.
And so to the bottom of Pen-y-Ghent where we chatted to a guy walking the Pennine Way in stages. That might be him scrambling up the first section with his wife.
Eventually we got to Horton where the pain for me really started although from an unexpected source. Ian from support crew two was preparing a couple of teas for us when I went to sit down on the seats attached to the table. I might have been slightly heavy sitting down but the net result was a broken table and chairs and I got a scolded back and arm - very painful.
As we approached Cam Woods the group were all starting to feel the walk. The blisters hadn't yet got to me but as the sun went down it felt like this was the time of day when everything would change.
As we plodded on between waterstop 3 and Beckermonds (waterstop 4) the pace slowed quite dramatically. Ady was struggling with blisters as was James (he thought) and Rich was feeling the knee. I felt my first twinge (in my left knee) and severe tightness (in my right calf) and it was downhill from there.
As we approached Cam Woods the group were all starting to feel the walk. The blisters hadn't yet got to me but as the sun went down it felt like this was the time of day when everything would change.
As we plodded on between waterstop 3 and Beckermonds (waterstop 4) the pace slowed quite dramatically. Ady was struggling with blisters as was James (he thought) and Rich was feeling the knee. I felt my first twinge (in my left knee) and severe tightness (in my right calf) and it was downhill from there.
This was perhaps the most difficult part of the course to date as the road to Beckermonds and then the route onto Buckden seemed to take forever.
At Buckden I got a fantastic massage which loosened the hamstrings and calf a little bit giving a bit of rest to the knee. It was then off towards Consitone.
We really suffered on the night section between Buckden and Kettlewell and were passed by many teams.
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