ARC 2024 Photo David Miller A slight improvement on 2023 with a few races completed but the ongoing theme of enjoying some time out in the hills and wild space. As always report written in date order, but the top 10 list is as follows - 1. ARC Of Attrition 100miles 2. NAV4 Tour De Helvellyn 3. Bruce's Crown Race 4. Trail Des Cedres, Morocco 5. Sea to Summit of Sveti Jure, Croatia 6. Cairnsmore Hill Race 7. Highland High Points with Trail Running Scotland 8. Salomon Buttermere Skyline 9. Braemar – Cape Wrath / Dragons Back reunion! 10. Moffat Chase Hill race 26th January 2024 – Arc of Attrition 100 Miles Ranking 1 – Unfinished business from la...
Cape Wrath Ultra from Fort William to Cape Wrath , 400km over some pretty harsh terrain over 8 days what could possibly go wrong! Finally after 28 months of waiting and training, and two cancellations (May 2020 and May 2021) we finally set off last Sunday 1 st Aug!! I had purposely not reccied the route, so the whole route was new to me!! Day 1 Fort William to Glenfinnan Approx. 23miles, 500m elevation Kit check and briefing had all been carried out on the Sat. so all we had to do was get the ferry across Loch Linnhe for the start. Start was planned for 10am, but 2 nd ferry group was a bit late in arriving so we eventually set off at about 10.15am. Departing Fort William Everyone was just raring to get going, I think the really long lead into the event, all the planning for kit check etc I for one was desperate just to get started. Cape Wrath Ultra start - did we know what we were getting into!!? First section was mainly road and then gradual rise up the f...
The day started early, up at stupid o’clock (3.15am) and drive down to Loch Trool for an attempt on the Galloway Ring of Fire. For background there is some history on the route on https://www.gofar.org.uk/ring-of-fire-galloway . In brief it is a loop starting at Bruces Stone at Loch Trool, taking in the Minigaff Hills, the Rhinns of Kells, the Loch Doon forest drive and then returning via the Range of the Awful Hand, taking in a total of 30 summits, across some remote terrain. On arrival at car park, it was almost full – the joy of the covid lock down!! I managed to squeeze in just beside the Merrick path. First challenge was finding Bruce’s stone, which I had never been to before, but managed to find it quite easily surrounded by campers!! Faffed about a bit to try and take a selfie but failed miserably so gave up! No point hanging about so at 4.51am I set off along the forest path. I tried to settle into an easy jog, but heart was racing and it took a long time to s...
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