You Never Stop Learning - The ARC of Doom
My name is Jonathan, and I just DNF'd. I feel terrible about it. My first ever DNF, I never even DNF'd a Parkrun before. Having said that I have DNS'd a few races when I Knew What Was Coming and was unprepared. Its a few days later now, and I've had chance to stop whinging and man up a bit rationalise things. I wasn't going to bother writing a blog on it, but if I don't I'll forget then important bits so here we go. I was interested in the Arc when a few Spine friends suggested it a year ago. Interested but not obsessed, so I guess I didn't do as much homework on it as I should have done. I jumped in to it with the mindset of my last race - the Spine - where resilience and endurance matter and speed (at the back) doesn't. It was a Winter 100 mile trail race after all. I packed my kit in my ridiculously large 32 litre Osprey pack, thinking about contingencies but not being overly cautious. Head torches were an issue - the race rules demanded t
