BOOYAH. That’s the 2026 Lea Valley 50K – my first (and not inconceivably last) #ultra done & dusted. It was ugly and graceless, and I was a hot mess deee-lux, but it was fun, FSVO “fun,” and finished, which is all I really cared about.

Now to sleep for three days straight.

Thanks so much to everyone at Camino, all the volunteers at the aid stations, and everyone who fist-bumped me on final approach. Thanks also to the excellent catte I saw lounging on the fo’c’s’le of a canal boat, who gave me life.
(Said catte. Hello catte.)
@adamgreenfield An excellent catte, well spotted and captured. Given the circumstances you are excused for violating Mastodon company policy, which states that any catte encountered in the street must be properly greeted and offered pets.
@PalmAndNeedle You know I would have, too, had it been reachable from the trail.