00:00For everything that the Pennine Way gives you, it will take something away from you.
00:03I think it does change you.
00:07You're dicing with a 50-50 chance that you might finish and a 50-50 chance of injury.
00:11If you fly that close to the sun, sometimes it burns you.
00:17I watched the race from a distance initially thinking,
00:20wow, I could never do something like that.
00:22The Montaigne Winter Spine Race is 268 miles along the Pennine Way.
00:27It's quite scary, isn't it?
00:28It is one of the most difficult races, I think, in Europe.
00:31The build-ups in Spine's been years in the making.
00:34We can absolutely compete at the front with the men, and we do.
00:37I actually think it's going to be one of the greatest adventures of my life.
00:40Three, two, one, go!
00:44For me, I need to push myself into uncomfortable places to feel alive.
00:49I fell into a big icy bomb hole at my waist.
00:53No-one does this because they want their cues off.
00:58You do this because you love it.
00:59Oh, look at that!
01:00Oh, my God!
01:01I had to make a decision.
01:03You're either going to live or you're going to die.
01:04It's as simple as that.
01:05I have the opportunity, a second chance, to do this stuff.
01:08I just want to be an example of what's possible.
01:10This is me pushing myself to the limit of, I think, my abilities.
01:13If I, as an older ultrarunner, am showing ladies of every age that this is possible,
01:18that's a win for me.
01:19It's the Spine, and anything can go really, really wrong.
01:23You just keep them going.
01:25Of course.
01:25Do you have to be curious?
