Guest post by Ellen Wylde
I wasn’t sure I was going to do this race, having suffered an ignominious result, as in DNF, in the last long-distance event I did the Gorge Junior Blow-Out last July. I went along on the Blow-Out with the delusional idea that I would be the chaperone to my 12 year old daughter, Fiona, who was doing the race for the first time. I ran out of wind and crawled out of the river while Fiona went on to finish admirably.
