Like most people my running calendar for 2021 was a bit muddled up!! The big focus for the year was going to be the re scheduled Cape Wrath which was due to take place in May 2021. This was then bumped to early August 2021, so I was looking for another race!! I liked the idea of the WHW Challenger format as it all seemed hassle free – 8am Saturday morning at Milngavie for the bus to Fort William and an 11am start, and all going to plan I could be back in the house Sunday afternoon!! Only problem was the WHW race was full so the only other options were the Ben Nevis / WHW race or the 180 mile race which started on the Friday. Being slightly sensible, I plumped for the Ben Nevis / WHW race along with Colin Anderson (Colin has the accolade of the only athlete to do the WHW and finish with a Ben Nevis summit in previous attempts!!). I had effectively been training for Cape Wrath since I entered in 2019 and managed to continue well through covid in 2020/21 with long (26mile+) runs ever...
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...
WHW 2019 Saved by a Sleep! First attempt at writing a blog about any running event, but I feel grateful for all the previous blogs and podcasts which gave me some great tips for my first WHW attempt so feel it is only right that I contribute in some small way. My 1 st WHW attempt was on the back of limited ultra experience (2 x River Ayr Way and one Fling), but after crewing for Iain Young last year, I took the plunge and put my hat in the ring!! Training had all gone reasonably to plan with some big runs including north to south WHW over three days, Lairig Ghru out and back, Galloway hills, Ayrshire coastal path, and the dreaded Lochside – Drovers to Rowardennan and back. I had also done Calendar park 8hr race in Feb (which I loved and manged just over 45miles), and the Fling where I knocked 1hr 14min of my time coming in at 10:43:46. Weekly mileage for the year is low by many peoples standards averaging at 37miles per week but about a year ago after constant n...
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