The long road back to Langdale
Back to try again at the toughest race I’ve done
In one of those things that seemed normal at the time but now feels incredibly strange back in 2020 I managed to do one of the toughest runs I’ve ever take on. Somehow, that year’s Langdale Half Marathon managed to happen in that small window between the end of the first lockdown and then the long drawn-out vaccine-awaiting lockdown of winter 20–21 and somehow, I managed to make it all the way around.
At the end of that post I said I might like to run it again sometime. I didn’t set a definite date for doing it again just at some indeterminate point in the future when, I was sure as I wrote that, I’d be fitter, stronger, quicker and in possession of a long-range weather forecast guaranteeing a dry day in Langdale. At that point I’d know I was ready for it, and then I’d sign up for it again.
Then I found out that this year’s race might be the last one, so if I wanted to run it again, I couldn’t wait until I was ready, I’d have to sign up and get myself ready.
(The reason this might be the last one is because Brathay — the charity who organise it — aren’t making as much as they need to from it. The more people who run it this year — or if…
