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If someone were to say to you, “it will change your life”, would you believe them? My first ever running race (school years excluded) was the Gold Coast Marathon. Flat, fast, packed with cheering spectators and filled with elite marathoners. ...
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Eric, another Belgium athlete came up to me and asked if I was ready to go. I figured he didn’t want to go alone into the night. The medics finished with me and I moved into the night with Eric. My feet were awful and by this late into the long day we only managed a sad determined walk. Within moments we were back in water and all the beautiful work and care that had been done on my feet disappeared with the current.
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Covid – Adventure Cancelled (CAC) has provided the time and space for so many people to venture out beyond the race paradigm and pursue their own Best Known Time adventure.
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But more so, it was that both runners and drivers did something they loved with gusto, they delved into something they adored and did it with so much fun and veracity. So many people do nothing, they don’t have a thing. Rally drivers and ultra-runners have a thing, they have endurance and a sense of adventure that makes the 2 activities so similar. We both have something.
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As we gathered around the finish line of Bigfoot, smelly, grotty, sleep deprived and high on life, I said to Candice, this is just something else. I felt like I had been on a multi-stage event as I had been away for so long, except that it was but 1 stage. We hadn’t stopped, we rested, but we had’t stopped. Something humongous had happened out there.
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