Lakes In A Day – 50 miles, 4000m, from the top to the bottom of the Lake District
“Soak upyour surroundings as you travel from Caldbeck, on the northern edge of the Lakes, to Cartmel, in the south.”
I’m not sure that the Lakes In A Day race organiser intended this to taken literally when they posted it on the front…
Hodgson Brothers Mountain Relay 2018
A strong Westies contingent (and me) made their way to the Lake District for the annual Hodgsons Brothers Mountain Relays last Sunday. This is a four-leg race on the hills around Patterdale; a stunning course and, thanks to a strictly limited…
I. AM. SPARTAN!
I. AM. SPARTAN ... You yell this at the start line, and you believe it as you think 'Yes, I WILL conquer all these daunting obstacles – I definitely am Spartan!' By the end you're more likely to be whimpering 'Thank God I got through…
Arrochar Alps: One Race, Two Tracks, Three Points, Four Munros, Five Stars
Arrochar Alps: One Race, Two Tracks, Three Points, Four Munros, Five Stars
Picking up three points and a £100 fine just after Tarbet meant I was not in the best of moods arriving at the village hall on Saturday morning. During…
Aravis Trail
Seeing as I evidently couldn’t cut it racing it Scotland a change was needed. This nominally involved me jumping on the back of Leyre’s good work in getting a 3-year contract in the Swiss Alps and moving over with an eye on taking on some…
Pad Race 2018 results
Note: Race report below by Micky Anderson, Neilston worthy/highly decent M50 hill-runner & my successor at the sharp end of the Neilston Pad mini-hill-run. Rhona B and I were the solitary Westies there last Saturday. Ever Grim...
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Our God Is Speed: The Whangie Whizz
Going fast in hill races rarely feels that quick, because uphill rarely is. You can be making a good time doing a lung-bursting race walk up Beinn an Oir, but the experience is never one of speed. Not so The Whangie, I love this race because…