FOR many runners, completing Powys’ epic Man vs Horse race is one for the bucket list. Taking on and defeating its forestry roads, sheep tracks, river crossings, bogs, mud and more than 4,000 feet of elevation – all while trying to dodge getting trampled by 60 horses – is a feat anyone can be proud of. For Eros Adamides, however, the gruelling run is made all the more difficult by the fact he’s got to negotiate all of this while not being able to see.
Eros is blind, but last weekend he completed his third straight Man vs Horse race. Alongside partner and guide runner Sarah Tizzard, the duo completed the 24.3-mile course in 5 hours and 37 minutes.
“It’s such an amazing event. The people in the town are unbelievable,” said Eros, 39. “From the Bryncelyn Guesthouse where we’ve stayed for the last three years, to the WI ladies serving the sandwiches at the end, it’s amazing.
“It’s tough and it’s fun but we come back because it feels like we’re going back to see old friends and catching up.” Sarah, 51, said: “It’s more than just a run, it’s the whole weekend. From getting away to somewhere beautiful, the town vibe.
Everyone’s engulfed in it. And then there’s the horses. “I don’t know an event anywhere that’s like it.
” Man vs Horse is a special event in so many ways to people living locally – having been dreamt up in a pub back in 1980 when landlord Gordon Green overheard a discussion between two men who were debating whether man cou.
