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[Bierzo Baggie]

I know it's hideously tough and would make the Three Forts seem like a collection of speed bumps but you make this damned race sound so inviting! Sounds like an epic session - six hours?!!

I was walking for most of those 6 hours .

In any case a road marathon for me is the toughest sort of race by a long way. No doubt about it. It doesn’t matter if you do it in two and a half hours or five and a half, you’re usually aiming to get around as fast as you can, without changes in rhythm and the view is normally restricted to the next 10 metres of tarmac in front of you. Agony!

That 3 forts race sounds superb. It’s up on my list of races that I’d love to do one day alongside the Grizzly in East Devon.