In reply to FellRunDan:
> How many stone have you been submitting with?
9 at my last attempt and 5 the time before that.
Somewhere along the way I was credited with 13 stones for finishing the 100k at Val d'Aran and then lost them all when I failed in the UTMB lottery and entering TDS instead.
I have reached a point where I am exceedingly relaxed about the lottery. I choose another great race as the fallback option each year and the ballot becomes little more than the flip of a coin to choose where I will be racing in August/September.