In reply to Moley: Yes how was yours Chay??
We finished at 2225 so just under 37hours. Have to say it was far far harder than anything I have tried before. The route seemed pretty hilly, even off the moors (4000m+ of ascent). Weather was stunning....for doing a short walk but boiling for a 100miler, hardly a cloud for 2 days.
We were doing the walk as guests of LDWA, in memory of the late Ivor Kingwell, hence "Camel to Teign Ivors Dream." So from about midnight on Saturday we joined as a team of 6 in true Ten Tors style and walked the rest together.
Advice to others...just dont!!!! No seriously it was a fantastic experience. I expected the soreness, the tired spells in the early hours, the mind shattering feeling at 80 miles that there was still 20 left and those were going to be longer, stiffer, slower, more painful than the first 80...and thats exactly what happened! What nearly caught me out was my bodys ability to switch itself off the moment I sat down. Both evenings as the temperature dropped, to below freezing on the first night, I found it really hard to stay walm and on the first night I had to have a lie down at a checkpoint wrapped in sleeping bag and a foil blanket while speed eating jelly babies to try to rewalm!!
The LDWA Marshalls were just great serving great food and care, best of the lot being the tomato and cheese covered crumpets washed down with a small cup of Dartmoor Ale at Princetown on sunday morning.
Feeling a bit tender today, back of right heel sports a 2inch diameter red purple blister which I will save for bursting later, and I seem to have caught elephantitis in my right...its huge!!
We raised a glass of bubbly to dear Ivor at the finish, a special walk planned by a very special man.