Staring at the start of what he predicted might be more than 24 hours of running, Hugh Beedell felt like he was prepared.
Beedell had raced a backyard ultramarathon before in England, which he ran for just over a day before bowing out well behind the winner who he recalled finished in a mind-melting 71 hours.
That distance was out of the question for Beedell, but he still had set a goal of 50 hours or 335 kilometres of running in the forest outside Nelson.
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