The Highland Fling Ultra, 27th April 2024
It's been over a week since I ran the Highland Fling now, and most of the aches and pains both mental and physical have subsided, so I figured it was time to pour myself a strong one and get all this out of my head. I had run the Devil O' The Highlands in August and it had been properly hard. I think it took more from me than I cared to admit. Some things happened to me beyond the end of the race; I continued to lose weight for a couple of weeks and I had a few days of really low mood. Later that month, I was at Glenmore Lodge for my Summer Mountain Leader Training where I was fed to the gunnels every single day and that seems to have sorted out my weight loss issues. To quote one of my friends, I was no longer looking like "the gable end of a £5 note". I still enjoyed the race though and despite the issues, I actually really wanted to get back to it again. Autumn came around and nice, light evenings disappeared. With no races planned other than Tinto at the beginni
