Distance supremo Steve Hickman is back! And when I say back I mean BACK!! No messing about with a half marathon or even a marathon for him this weekend, he’s straight back on the saddle with a 50 miler.
Despite an obscenely early 6am start our Marathon King took on this 50 mile endurance event. Made up of 6.25 mile laps on the Brooks Farm estate, the course is multi terrain following paths through the farm toward Reculver and Thanet.
“I’ve done this event several times before” Steve tells me in his usual low key manner “Apart from feeling awful on the 1st lap, it went well. But I put that down to the early start”
He was right, it did indeed go well with our Steve completing the challenge without taking too much in the way of breaks.
“You can’t hang around for too long between laps” he quips. He would know I guess, he’s an old hat at this sort of thing.
And so he completed the 8 laps of the course with no trouble at all in an awesome 11 hours 2 minutes and 16 seconds. That was his 139th time running a marathon distance or over. Unimaginable for us mere mortals.
