Comments | hazeii: The Double

hazeii

The Double

Aug 31, 2007 17:08

2:30am on the 30th August 2007. Under the light of a full moon, I'm rolling around in the middle of Winchester High St, wearing a dressing gown and whimpering in pain. My choice.

24 hours earlier, I'm screaming at the guy driving, he's going the wrong way up the A31.
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rhandolph August 31 2007, 20:14:22 UTC

Well, Congratulations!

Funnily enough there was a story about a guy in the paper I read earlier sbout a guy who tried it (oneway I think) but didn't make it due to fog, wet grass, getting abit lost and hitting a badger!

Now you can have a nap.

hazeii August 31 2007, 20:31:07 UTC

Thank you, sir!

That report in the paper must have been Ian Butler! He was going for the double as well, tried it two weeks ago, but only managed 23h 1m. It wasn't the badger that slowed him down, he got 8 punctures and strayed off the route a tad - unlucky! He and a couple of others have the potential to do it faster than me, it's one of those challenges where it's a case of slotting all the pieces together.

My closest badger on this run was about 3 feet, came a lot closer to that to a stag with huge antlers (I've hit both deer and badgers before). Only thing I actually collided with was what I thought was an owl, but pipistrelle called and suggested it could have been a nightjar.

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hazeii September 1 2007, 20:56:21 UTC

As in impressively stupid :)

It'll take a while to settle, but at present think the GPS hackery was way smarter than what I've done to my body.

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hazeii September 1 2007, 21:00:32 UTC

Thank you! (though sometimes I worry how such physical posts come across to people on my friends list).

dsblw September 1 2007, 00:19:33 UTC

You never fail to impress, congratulations Handsome, well done, you get my vote.

hazeii September 1 2007, 21:02:02 UTC

I worry whenever you vote for me, you know; what exactly is it I'm letting myself in for?

;)

dsblw September 3 2007, 22:31:49 UTC

It's way too early to tell you that...

eviltemptress69 September 1 2007, 01:03:43 UTC

Congratulations!

I'm really proud that you did that! It takes a lot to do that!

hazeii September 1 2007, 21:08:03 UTC

Thanks! (and now you know why I've been quiet for a while!)

Scary bit is I set myself up for it, made sure people would know if I failed, just to make me try harder.

Yet I made it.

Maybe I didn't set a hard enough target.

eviltemptress69 September 26 2007, 00:04:26 UTC

It sounds like it was really hard!

But I guess next time, you'll make it a little harder for yourself. I wish you luck for next time!