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Not quite the Way I'd intended....

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The Spine Race - January 2018 Foreword This race blog was originally going to be called My Way.  I had signed up for the Spine Race this year not for any particular burning reason but for a number of slowly smouldering ones. Still in mourning after my Yukon Arctic Ultra experiences I went into my 2014 Spine Race with an unrealistic mindset about British winter racing, expecting a winter wonderland and getting a 7 day rain and bog fest, on a route that was in some places more National Disgrace than National Trail. I then got ill early on in the race and death marched the last 200 miles in an increasingly zombie like state. Recovery, both physical and mental, took months.  It’s a truth of long distance endurance racing that it’s not about whether or not something goes wrong, but what goes wrong and how you deal with it.  I wasn't after a perfect race this year, they don't happen, but surely I could have a better time than in 2014!  I'm also a lot fitter and str