The idea was to run part of the Pennine Way from Edale to Hawes – inspired by the Spine Challenge Runners of 2015. 108 miles over 3 days. The breakdown had been planned like this: Day one; Edale to Mankinholes around 36-40 miles, day two; Mankinholes to Malham around 40 miles, day three; Malham to […]
Midnight Marathon
Cue a trip to London for a course that got cancelled a few days before. But I’ve booked everything I squealed. I can’t afford to loose money. Hell I am going anyway and anyway I had booked a run on the South Downs on the Saturday evening as I was too tight to pay for […]
Wheatley 10
I was looking for one step up to my last event the Longshaw 10 so decided to keep the 10 in the picture and do one called the Wheatley 10 out near Retford. A silly choice for me given that I like hills and Retford area is flat as a pancake. But it was advertised […]
Longshaw Trust 10
It was the weekend of the Round Sheffield Run so most of Sheffield were running around Sheffield, that’s why its called the Round Sheffield Run. Me – not me, and a handful of others who decided to do the Longshaw 10 instead. Yet I only decided at 8am that morning as I got up and […]
Hoka Highland Fling
This is my post to wallow in my own self pity – I had a bad race. The end. But not quite. I need to look at why and write it all down, no such thing as the end. Having bad races is part of being a runner. They make you tough, they motivate you, […]
Dark Skies Run
In my own stupidity I had signed up for the ‘Dark Skies Run’ 26.5 miles around the largest artificial lake in England – Kielder. No it was not flat, (nearly 2000ft of climb), no it was not just in daylight, no it was not a marathon, it was a 26.5 mile run around an undulating […]
Oldham Way Ultra
2015 I turned up for the Oldham Way Ultra full of hel-flu and made the rather wise decision to not even start the race but to head back home at 7am in the morning and sulk for a whole 12 months. 12 months later I entered only 2 days before the event deliberating if I […]
Edale Skyline
Who’s bright idea was it to have x2 long distance (21 mile) fell races with a cumulative climb of over 6500ft the day after each other in the stunning Peak District? Really? Who’s bright idea was it to enter both? Really? I’d entered Grindleford Gallop before the announcement of the Edale Skyline Race which was […]
Grindleford Gallop
As I got in the car on the way to my 3rd Gallop in 3 years Queen’s ‘Don’t stop me know’ was blasting out of the radio. Yep, I’m gonna go go go or do what my body will let me do. So lets see shall we? [Today] I’m gonna have myself a real good […]
Longshaw Trust 10
The Longshaw 10km is a two lap trail race set in the National Trust grounds of Longshaw in the heart of the Peak District. People had spoken very highly of the event, (it’s not a race its a free 10km timed trail run) so I wanted to check it out to see what all the […]