OVER THE HILL?
Would a short local race make our annoyingly cheerful ultrarunner Damian Hall feel his age?
I ruddy love autumn, me. The kaleidoscopic changing colours in the trees, the lowerangled light spreading across the landscape and those deliciously crisp and crunchy mornings? Sure. But I ruddy love mud, too.
I’ve been mostly wearing my Inov-8 X-Talons. With their minimalist design and great grip, you feel like you’re running barefoot. The common squelch is a much underrated sound.
The European ultra-trail season is over, so I’ve had two months off. I didn’t actually stop running. That would be nuts. But I’ve been doing fun runs, really, just distances and speeds I felt like at the time. It’s been a hoot.