 So last year as you know I did a full on film my run production of the archivatrician 2017 finished in 29 hours and 50 minutes just scraped in to get that gold buckle and I thought given the fact that I was filming last year and it was the first time I'd done the race so I made quite a few navigational errors I reckoned I could take a couple of hours off my time so we went back 2018 and did the archivatrician again this time with my buddy Richard and here is the kind of little vlog that we made of that race I gave the camera to my daughter my eight-year-old daughter Elsa and just asked her to film whenever she could be bothered really amongst playing and doing all the other things that eight-year-olds do so this is her this is her blog of my 2018 archivatrician race bear with us for those who don't know the archivatrician headquarters is was in Port Townan which is a village on the north coast of Cornwall it's where you meet for registration it's where you get your tracker it's where race briefing is held and it's where you get the bus which takes you the hour journey to the start line on the south coast of Cornwall in Covra so here we are walking to the buses it's a lovely day isn't it it's nice now nice the sun's out it's warm when you're out of the wind archivatrician 2018 and we're just getting on the buses we're very nervous but it's sunny even though it's going to rain I'm not nervous because I don't know what to expect it's going to be nice and sunny today and rainy and horrible over tomorrow tonight it's going to be all right I think yeah this is Port Townan this is where we finish tomorrow come down that big hill there look well you come down that road come down this road and then round you can come down so my family made their way straight down to the first meeting point which was at Lizard Point so they didn't see a start so there's no film of us starting so assume that we started at midday at Covrack and we ran 10 miles ish to the first meeting point at Lizard that's about 11 and a bit 11 and a half miles that is thank you muddy and more my more diversions can I have some redbull in this side no I haven't touched the water yeah there's a lot slower going than expected it's Danny been through already yeah yeah no we're miles behind what we hoped for you took ages you know yeah taking longer than expected the next meeting point was at Mully and Cove you can see here if you notice my crew my wife is showing me bits of paper what's written on those bits of paper is information about what's coming up next so how far it is to the next checkpoint what the next checkpoint is and also anything that I need to look out for so navigational bits of information so she'll have written down something like be careful not to go on to the beach here or make sure you remember the right turn at such and such things like that just important little bits of information that helped me and Richard on our journey to the next checkpoint the first official checkpoint at around about 25 28 miles something like that 29 miles even and was at Port Levin and last year it was in a different location the checkpoint so this year the idea was to have volunteers called valets to meet you at a certain point and run you in to the checkpoint so that you didn't have to waste loads of time trying to find the place this is Port Levin we've had lots of diversions it's been really difficult and really muddy so I'm I'm over half an hour later than I was last year and these are his supermiles nine miles to the next one Peranuthno okay and that's 33 miles well no, only more than that but right okay meeting point four for my crew was at Peranuthno which is supposed to be about 34 miles into the race it was probably about 38 miles into the race and it was well I mean before this but certainly here we really started to realize how far behind time we were because of the mud because of the various diversions on the coast path because the coast path had fallen into the scene various places we just had to go round there was significant extra mileage and we were really understanding how much more mileage there was and how far behind we were and not just from ideal time but from the time I was doing last year when I was significantly less fit do not go on the beach okay what is what? water that's a hello this is this is Peranuthno and we've traveled well we've got 60 we've got 66.7 miles to go and it's very dark and it's half a day in the morning no half a space at night and it's pitch black I thought we got here at half a state last year oh yeah no eight that's eight if we were going on believe it we will mommy we all have let's have a family last year Steven you've got here at quarter to eight last year you are kidding quarter to eight we've got here last year and we've got more miles to go you're 45 minutes slower now you've come back to get that silver buckle haven't you? you Steven each time I see you you're losing time but in general everyone's slower the leader's half an hour slower I think with all the mud I don't know behind me he came here after you left oh really? well it was actually nine miles from where we were last year well daddy are you thirsty? are you thirsty? the mileage is wrong because we've already done more miles with the extra thank you very much you don't need to touch that darling you just hold it like that 45 minutes behind last year that's ridiculous no it's madness isn't it? keep going I feel fine but it's just I think it's muddy as well it's just the mud in the dark you've got to go over that bye so it was at this point that my daughter kind of fell asleep in the back of the car and didn't really film anything else until well into the next day so there is no film overnight I mean it would have been pretty dark anyway so you wouldn't have seen much and so just to tell you we passed checkpoint 2 which was at Penzance and then moved on through the wilderness the dark, the rain and the mud and significant elevation to Lamorna Cove which was at 46 miles officially 50 miles in reality probably Minak Theatre absolutely gorgeous location in the daylight don't see a thing at night that's around 52 miles officially again it was more like 56-57 miles the next official checkpoint was Land's End that was at 58 miles officially but 62-63 miles in reality we stopped there we had a good while there just looking at our feet and making sure we were all right because the next section is really the toughest section of the whole race from Land's End on to Cape Cornwall and then Pendine Watch Lighthouse Pendine Watch Lighthouse was where our crew got lost even though they made it there last year perfectly alright Victoria managed to park in the wrong car park so we arrived at Pendine Watch with no crew there in the pouring rain the icy wind blasting us as well and we had to wait there for 5 or 10 minutes for our crew to get there but they did and I changed socks there I think and my wife looked after my feet and then it was the very difficult 15-mile section from Pendine to St Ives with no crew stops and very difficult going underfoot really slow going in the mud really boggy or rocky lots of boulder climbing elevation just knee deep in mud sometimes so it's very difficult to get running but we did quite well in that section we made it to St Ives and we managed to catch up all the time that we'd lost from last year and we were now ahead of time so that was good so the next point you see us is after the Dunes of Doom so you go from St Ives to Hale and then from Hale there's a Sand Dunes section which is really annoying and then you get to a place called Gwythian Godrevy Cafe and that's this point here because it was sand dunes and we were going left and right back to the floor if we've gone on the back my dad's doing a race if you want to see well it depends how you go so we're at now we've got 11 miles to go we have done let me tell you we've done 97 and a half miles so this is going to be at least 107 miles this race gone you two go this is Gwythian by the way come on Vic out of Gwythian and it's up to one final stop at Port Reith and from Port Reith it's up the hill four miles and all the way home and here we are finishing the race captured by Christian from No Limits Photography and that was our 2018 archivatrician race we finished in 29 hours and around about 10 13, 15 minutes nobody's quite sure nobody really cares we came in about 22nd, 23rd place second old buckle for me first one for Richard and we will be back again in 2019 and we'll see if the weather conditions are any better we will try and train well and see if we can get anywhere near that black buckle for 24 hours that would be really amazing if we could do that but realistically 26 hours maybe we can try so that's it archivatrician 2018 done and dusted see you for the next one take care bye