Just a quick update to say that unlike after last year’s Charmouth Challenge I’m still running!
Took a good four or five days for the aching muscles to recover, but I’ve been out for a few runs since then. Had a nice one Wednesday when I ran out along the beach to St Gabriels, and thencame back along the coast path.
After having a good think, I’ve decided to try and keep going through the winter this time, even if it’s only once a week. That will give me a better base for building up to next year’s Challenge. Also think I need to try and increase distances to build up stamina. This is all depending on keeping injury free of course. Still planning to do the Weymouth ten mile race in October, might find a 10k race before that, may just do my own thing.
Going back to the Challenge, nice to see that this year’s race and fun run raised over £6,000 for Charmouth Primary School. Runners come from all over now to run in the UK’s most southerly fell race.
On the down side, this was the report from the Coastguard blog:
2011 Incident #27 02.07.11 1517UTC #XXXX
The Initial Response Team, the IRT, was tasked rescue a 40 year old female runner who had fallen and sustained a suspected broken ankle. She was participating in the annual Charmouth Challenge and had lost her footing crossing a stile. Fortunately an off duty coastguard who was helping marshall the event was able to assist. She had fallen on a fairly remote stretch of the coast path, east of Charmouth, near Westhay Farm. South West Ambulance co- responders were also sent to the scene. Due to the difficult access and the level of pain the casualty was in, the coastguard helicopter airlifted her to Dorchester Hospital.
