In August whilst on holiday and after having a couple of day time (morning) beers I was contacted by a friend to see if I was interested in running a non-stop 62.5 miles/100km Ultramarathon that he was signing up to in June. My response, as anybody’s would be was “No, that sounds horrendous.” 

He replied “Firstly, if I do this and you don’t I will officially be a better athlete than you. Secondly, just think of it as 12 hours away from the kids.” With a such well measured response by both threatening my ego, and guaranteeing 12 hours of peace, I was sold. 

Ultra training started in September with a previous furthest run of 11 miles (17.6km) and no passion or desire for running. I am now just 5 months, 600 training miles (1000km)  and 62 non-stop miles (100km) of finishing The Race To The King Ultramarathon. 

I would like to use this as an opportunity to raise funds for the The Tom Bowdidge Foundation. The TBF has been a charity close to the hearts of my family since it began in 2014, and do amazing work supporting Teenage Cancer. For more information on the amazing work that they do please visit them on 

https://www.tombowdidgefoundation.org/ 

If you would like to keep up to date on my training and journey to become an ultramarathon runner you can follow my running page:

@dannyscottultratraining

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