I started at 6:00 a.m. at the start of the Cataraqui Trail near Strathcona. My friend Caleb started with me. At roughly the 13.5 km mark my friend Owain joined me, and Caleb stopped. After 10.5 km with me, Owain stopped and my friend Steve jumped in. Steve ran with me for roughly 17-18 km. I then ran a section of the trail by myself. After roughly 20 km solo, Caleb jumped back in from roughly the 65km mark to the 80 km mark. At the 80km mark my friend Corey joined on his gravel bike and rode with me until the end of the trail.
With regards to fuel, I had an ample amount of gels on me at any given time. If I needed a handheld flask of high carb fluids, I would communicate that when I saw my support person at a trail crossing and they ensured they could hand this off to me at the next crossing. Unfortunately, I experienced severe GI distress and threw up a lot of my fuel which made taking in gels or high carb products very difficult from approximately 50km onwards. I supplemented with apple sauce packages and drank coke products which were the only things that seemed to sit in my stomach.
There was a tree down on the trail that I had to climb over, and there was a section of the trail that had flooded and frozen over which I had to navigate. There were also workers providing trail maintenance that saw me running with my friend Caleb.