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Corris Round
First up, the helpful info for anyone attempting the round. Doing the Corris Round in March was Dave’s idea – which worked both as a great objective in itself, and as a stepping stone to future challenges. It was Lisa’s biggest ascent day so far, and a big day by any standards. For me, it…
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Winter training
After a great start to Northern Traverse training in October, November became a bit disrupted by some family illness and life admin. December had been designated a “fun month”, with a weekend away, and turned into a pretty solid training month with more free time around Christmas than usual. Coming into the New Year, I…
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Winter running tips
Some collected thoughts on running in winter conditions, after a few days of exactly that in January 2025. All the pictures below are from a couple of days in the local hills, 9-10 Jan. This advice is mostly concerned with local, low level trails than the more serious business of winter mountain running.
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2024 Review
This has felt like a transitional year – the first since I took my ultra running seriously where there hasn’t been a really big successful run. 2019 was the Dragon’s Back, even 2020 had my home made Peak 500m trigs (at 75 miles, the furthest I had run at the time). 2021 was the return…
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Training log – Oct 2024
So, here we are, a 6 month run-in to the Northern Traverse (300km and 6000m ascent). Time to ramp up the training and see what I can do with it. 2023 was a fantastic running year for me, with a whole lot of challenges and races completed, culminating in the winter solo Bob Graham. 2024…
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The Rigby Round, and other failures
Equinox weekend September 2024, I didn’t complete the 24 hour Rigby Round of Cairngorm Munros. Summary: it’s OK to fail, provided you learn something from it. In this case, not to approach something too casually. The Rigby visits the 18 Munro summits in the Northern Cairngorms, and is meant to be done solo, unsupported, and…
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Peak 10 Trigs – Green Challenge
This is a challenge run easily accessible by public transport, using trains from Manchester. It links 10 trig points on or near the Pennine Way, in the Peak District.
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Leventon’s Line
This is a linear crossing of southern Snowdonia, between Barmouth on the west coast, and Llangollen in the east. The original concept was E-W, linking 7 trig points, and ending at the sea. Lovely! This would be suitable for someone looking for a full-daylight challenge, not a full 24 hours, perhaps as a training run…
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Bob Graham – Winter, Solo, Unsupported!
Let’s start with a public health warning – this is a challenge requiring winter mountain skills as well as running ability. I’ve written the story of my round below, but wouldn’t want anyone to underestimate the wider skills needed to take this on safely. Winter in the mountains will generally through more severe challenges at…
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Tranter’s Round June 2022
Let’s start with some useful information: Account Top of my hit-list for the summer were the Tranters and Rigby Rounds. I thought the weather could decide, and in the end the west coast was going to be clear and sunny, while cloud push in from the North Sea. Decision made. This was a very opportunistic…