02/07/2025
We took on the Yomp again, this was our third time. Yay, 3 x Gold 🏅, that's 54 miles in 24 hours.
We did it, but not as well as we'd hoped when we signed up twelve months earlier. What went wrong? What was different this year? What went right? Why are we doing it again in 2026?
We didn't train enough. Yes we had excuses, but they are just excuses. We could have still made time. We lacked discipline.
Difference this year apart from lack of training, was that we were carrying little niggles. Oh well, how sad, never mind.
This year, the Support Team had grown. We were hyper hyper. We knew we could do it, regardless of the pain. We weren't going to let our Sponsors down, and More importantly we weren't going to let ourselves down.
For me the last 15 x miles were awful. The pain in the hips, knees, ankles, and the blisters... ooh they smarted. The mental battles were tough as well.
This was going to be our last one for the foreseeable. But guess what? We have another Friend who wants to do it, yay!
Watch this space for updates on our training, our will to push through pain, the ups, the downs, the lot.
Next year: Me & the 2 Steves.
The Cateran Yomp ABF North East and Yorkshire Army Benevolent Fund