Day 36 - Departure

10am Inverness Railway Station - I am alone. For the last 5 weeks I have lived in a bubble, surrounded by people who have either been fellow runners or part of an amazing crew who have fed us, moved our bags, transported us, manned pitstops, taped our injured parts at 5:30am etc etc.

Now I have to reintegrate. I need to use money again to buy food rather than following orange arrows into pitstops. 

I am of course very much looking forward to being home but I will no doubt miss an amazing group of people with whom I have shared the last 5 weeks. I owe a lot of thanks to a great many people.

To complete the story...

- At the final pitstop awards I collected my orange arrow - my quote of "we prefer cows to kilometres" being a reference to us taking a more direct route than the GPX which was taking us round a field of cows (unnecessarily)😉

- We had a cracking celebratory meal last night

- Below two videos of the finish & a few favourite images from my fellow runners.

With thanks for all the kind messages.

Runners & crew at the end

My pitstop arrow

With 800+ miles already in his legs Sean was an easy target for this small kid. Quite who gave him his orders remains classified information. Photo credit Luke

Bruce captured this amazing shot yesterday afternoon on the boggy clifftops.

Jill's double rainbow picture

The finish - Jamie, Ash, David & me reaching the finish.

The team at the finish

THE END


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