Nathan's Stones Ultra. A 7 in 7 challenge for MND

Belated day 7. 

What a day. The Puterach was an amazing lift, with part of the great and hugely supportive stone lifting community there on their own tour to egg me on! Saw them again 20km in as they drove past on the way to another stone. 

The run was, as the last few updates have said, very tough. From the end of day 2, I finished feeling I had nothing left in the tank and was done. The only difference was that after this one I didn't have to wake up and do it all again. 

The run had the wind behind me most of the way, the sun shining, and a route that gave me four spots to aim for en route, meaning I could tick them off one by one. 

Finishing at Stirling Castle was special, although the route seemed to have picked the steepest way up, and coming up to the castle the way I did meant there was no hiding from the public, and I just had to run and run hard. I was blowing out of my proverbial by the time I touched the castle wall and ended the 7 days at 16.59 (I had said I'd be done by 5pm!)

Since then I've got home, had a spa day and eaten a couple of burgers. That always seems to be my go-to craving food!

Thanks to the support team - kate, chloe and gus - especially on the gruelling last couple of days where my body was trying to shut down.

Day 2 and 3

I'm lumping these together as I've been a bit tired in an evening and forgot to do this. 

Day 2 was atrocious weather. Howling gales, hail, rain..  a bit of sunshine followed by more rain. Glencoe threw pretty much everything it could at me. We managed to locate the stones (after initially picking the wrong car park and therefore path, my bad). I got 2 lifted, no idea of the weight and wasn't in the mood to hang around and figure it out. 50k in the weather was a slog but got it done in just over 6 hours moving time. 

Day 3. Slightly sunnier conditions but a nice headwind for about 20k and a few showers and heavy downpours.

The Harvieston Stones were great. 99kg to chest and 144kg. The heaviest I've ever lifted just about to lap.  For all the non stone lifters, getting the stone off the ground is like level 1, to lap is level 2, to chest level 3, and to shoulder Level 4. Above the head is like the hidden level on the old school computer games. Very few can, and very few will. 

The run yesterday was a toughie, some places I've been to before were on the route so it was a bit of a trip down memory lane in that respect. But my legs are beginning to feel the miles and yesterday there were some flare-ups -shin, hip, knee, and ankle. So pretty much everything but the thighs!