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At 8.19pm on Tuesday 24 May Damian Hall reached Minehead and the end of Britain’s longest National Trail, the South West Coast Adidas Tubular Mujer Path (SWCP). In doing so, he set a new fastest known time (FKT) for the 630-mile footpath of 10 days, 15 hours and 18 minutes, knocking more than 16 Asics Gel Lyte 3 Damen hours off the previous record. He averaged 60 miles per day.

Hi Damian, have you recovered yet? My feet are a lot less grumpy. I’m no longer waking in the middle of the night in a sweat. And I can no longer eat three breakfasts without subsequent pressure being applied to my belt. So, hopefully, I’m partly recovered. I haven’t tried running Nike Air Force 1 Damen yet.

Talking of which, what made you think running 630 miles would be a good idea? I’m not sure I ever did. It was my good friend Mark Townsend’s idea, and he’s a persuasive fellow. He co-owns Contours Walking Holidays and wanted to run the SWCP to help promote his company’s new arm, Contours Trail Running Holidays. More than that, though, he used to have the FKT and he wanted it back.So two of your started, but only one finished? Mark had a knee problem from an accident a few weeks before Adidas Neo Femme our attempt, but he’s a heroically stubborn bugger – he once refused to drop out of the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc after a mid-race stroke. He did the first 300 miles of the SWCP with me, but was in increasing discomfort and we slipped behind the then FKT. He had to stop, but really didn’t want to – the FKT meant a lot to him. But it made me all Adidas Tubular Damen the more determined to set a new record on his behalf. From then on he became the tactical mastermind and his wimp-management skills came to the fore.

How so? I never thought of giving up. But I could get a bit despondent. I usually started running at 5am and because the terrain is so hilly – there’s around 111,000ft of ascent, more than three times up Everest – it took time to log the miles. Four miles an hour was the fastest I managed, and I rarely reached that. By about midnight I’d be Nike Air Vapormax Womens inclined towards a lie down, especially if there was a bit of a storm on the go and the path went along remote clifftops. Sometimes Mark had to calmly explain that it wasn’t bedtime quite yet if I wanted to set a record.