Narrabeen Allnighter 12hrs! 130.051km!

Wow! What a tough event this one is!

My day started by tossing and turning Fri night/Sat morning and really didn't get alot of sleep. That seems to happen alot before an ultra race. Spent Sat just trying to do nothing. Lying on the couch etc.
Mum came and picked us up about 2pm and by the time we squeezed everything in the car we were off.

First stop was to some chicken at this shop down at Narrabeen then to the supermarket to get some supplies then it was off to the race area to set up camp.

The weather was coolish waiting around but good for running.

7:30 we gather around for a bit of a race briefing then 8pm we line up ready to go.

Within about 1min Jo Blake takes the lead with me not too far behind. By the turnaround I think he slowed down to run with me then we kinda shared the lead for the first 20k. It felt really comfy and was happy to just keep that pace. We did go through the first 10k quite fast in 44:39.

It was about 20k and I noticed Jo slipping behind but wasnt sure if he would pick the pace up later

My girls Tiff & Skyla were there all night helping and really chearing me on.

I went through quite alot of bad patches all night and after about 40k I had my first toilet stop and a nasty vomit!

It was also around that time my right knee started to give me quite alot of grief but I could run with it. It was mainly all the ditches and at the turn arounds where it was the most painful. As the night went on all I wanted was icy cold water and ice. I pretty much just ran the whole way wetting my body with the water bags, chewing on ice.

The last hour was just hell and my body was starting to shut down. 42min to go and Í was just short of 7k to reach 130km. Going around the last lap I'd done 129.3k and had about 3min to get to 130k. Thinking I wouldn't do it I just kept shuffling along then all of a sudden I thought stuff it.....when will I get this chance again and knew I would hate myself if I fell 100m short so I just ran that last lap as hard as I could!

The hooter sounded and I just collapsed on the ground!

10k splits were

10k - 44:39
20k - 1:30:45
30k - 2:17:47
40k - 3:07:02
50k - 4:02:09
60k - 5:04:29
70k - 6:01:42
80k - 6:57:58
90k - 7:56:32
100k - 8:55:56
110k - 9:54:35
120k - 10:58:12
130.051 - 12:00:00!