Day 2 of the Great Barrow challenge

I must admit as I woke up on day 2 I felt terrible. All through the night I was violently sick and had stomach cramps. I was clearly very dehydrated. I was drinking all I could to get as much fluid on board as possible. As well as this I did not feel hungry in the slightest but I knew I had to eat. So after forcing a large bowl of porridge and 2 bananas down me we set off for marathon number 2. As we got to the start line I started to feel much better. All the water I had drunk and my big breakfast seemed to get me back on form.
As the race started straight away our legs felt heavy. We all agreed it felt like we hadn't actually stopped, but had just carried on from yesterday.

Day 2 was a total different course from day 1, a bit more on road but still lots of fields and forest to cross. We got to about mile 9 and we saw one of the guys who had set off about 90 minutes before us heading our way, he was on mile 20 meaning we were about to run in a big 11 mile circle! This was a very hard piece of information to take on board. We all knew this loop was going to be horrible and would have given anything to be in the guy’s shoes who had already completed his 20 miles! There was some very lonely moments on day 2, although there was 3 of us, there would be times where we just would not speak. We were all in such a horrible amount of pain with tight muscles, sore knees, blisters etc that we just could not speak! But we did keep on encouraging each other and got round the gruelling loop. At the 20 mile check point we were met by Charles parents and Ian and Charlie’s girlfriends. We got a quick drink and stocked up on energy gels before we dug deep and completed the last 6 miles. I’m not going to lie, it was horrible! But 2 marathons completed in 2 days was an achievement which we were all very proud of. However the reality was that we were still only half way through our challenge! We had to do what we had already done again!
 
My day was about to get even tougher, straight after running my second marathon in as many days I headed straight off to work! So after training some clients and teaching my indoor Bootcamp, I settled down with my girlfriend for a Chinese take away. A meal full of calories, carbohydrates and fat...just what my shattered body was craving...it really is a hunger I cannot describe. I felt as if I was quite literally staving. After a nice shower it was off to bed ready to get up early and head back to Barrow for marathon number 3!!!