Huntingdon Ultramarathon Result – Thanks for all your support!

The great Huntingdon Ultramarathon has now been and I’m pleased to say I survived it!

Yesterday I headed over to Huntingdon on a warm Sunday morning and I’m pleased to report that I achieved my goal of nine laps of the course. I completed 29.5 miles in 5 hours and 23 minutes. I’m pretty pleased with that as the last lap was a bit of an ordeal! Huge thanks to my friend, Matt, who came up from Windsor to support me and to hold my water and fruit pastilles.

The event, by Zig Zag racing, was well organised and relaxed and everyone seemed to enjoy the day. Hinchingbrooke Park was a lovely venue, even with the deep, damp mud that lurked throughout the woodland part of the course.

A massive thank you to everyone who sent me good luck messages before the event. And a massive thanks to everyone who sponsored me to help me raise a bit for MacMillan Cancer Support (if you can spare a pound or two there is still time to sponsor me and help this great cause: https://www.justgiving.com/page/dan-regan-huntingdon-challenge – thank so much!).

Here I am before the start, that bit where you have no idea what is in store for you!

And I think this is a few laps in (but clearly not too far in because I don’t look like I’m suffering enough!):

If you are interested, the full results for the Huntingdon Challenge are here: Results

I came fourth out of seven who did nine laps and only four people did more laps. Most did the marathon (eight laps) or fewer.

One of the hardest things I find on long distance training runs and races is to drink and eat enough. I did a bit better on the fluids front yesterday because it was warm and because Matt kept reminding me to drink but I still don’t get how anyone feel like eating anything during these events (I just about managed a Trek bar and a few fruit pastilles whilst I was running).

If you’d like to know more about Zig Zag events then do take a look at their website: Zig Zag Running and you may well notice that they are back on the same Huntingdon ultramarathon course a couple of times later in the year….I’m quite tempted to have another crack and see if I can achieve the ten lap milestone. Although I’m going to wait until my legs function properly again before committing to anything else. Yet, as always, give it a couple of weeks and the aches will be gone, the medal (it’s an awesome, big, heavy thing!) will seem more majestic and my mind will start dreaming of more race finishes.

Thanks so much again for all of your support and good wishes!

To your health and happiness, 

Dan Regan

Award Winning Hypnotherapist in Ely & Newmarket

And many thanks to my client who very kindly brought me this ultra marathon recovery kit!!

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