Matt: In my infinite wisdom, pure clarity of mind and stable state, I thought that after coming back from South Africa, where incidentally I went down with a bout of the flu, I would agree to run the Wadi Bih Relay..with merely a week to train and a get rid of a nasty chesty cough left over from the flu. Genius!!
What was I thinking??
The Wadi Bih Run: I 76km run through the Haja Mountain, broken down into stages, climbing to 1100 metres. The relay is for a team of up to 5 and you can split the sections however you see fit, the longest of which being around 6km. Mental.
Paul Louzado, somehow convinced us to join in. Making up 2 teams, team Road Runner and team Wile E. Coyote. We set off from Dibba beach at a little after 8am and proceeded to run for the next 6 hours, the support car would drive on to the next check-point for the swap over, so some legs of the run were very long and lonely affairs, but through the majestic Haja Mountains, rugged cliffs raising up on either side of you, funneling you on to the next bend in the trail.. occasionally rounding these bends the track would open out to wide wadi bed with impressive view of the vista ahead.
Overall a wholly rewarding exercise, with 62 teams entering, couldn't be all that bad, could it??
Well done to both our teams for completing the run respectably.
Yep - if you look hard enough at the pic above you can see me on the road ahead..this was the flat gravel road before climbing into the mountains!! Before I nearly died from exhaustion..
This weekend - Stairway to Heaven Hike....(sanity check optional)
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