It’s All Hundreds
“A journey is best measured in friends, rather than miles.” Tim Cahill
In a poll I'm yet to conduct, 83% of respondents will say they did their first trail run because a friend invited them. But I suspect that 100% of 100 miler runners will say a friend or fellow runner convinced them to try the 160km distance…
Persistent friends are like pitbulls
That was totally my experience. In my case, my friend was very persistent. Race organisers tend to be persistent, and they notice when you're not conforming to their suggestion. Especially when it's their race they're recommending you run. Yip, Addo's Sian O'Keeffe wasn't going to relent. There was nowhere to hide. But, life happens, even if you really want to tackle an adventure. Take 2016, the year that the Addo 100 was reintroduced after a slumber of six years. That year I was training like a Trojan who knew war with Sparta was imminent. It was going so well I thought I'd double up with some gardening while running. I mean, you'd also run home with discarded 3m-long bamboo stems, right?
If you run with bamboo, Jungle Jim, you might as well jump a flower bed
