The heat is on! Just four days after taking part in this recce, my wife and I were trudging the hills above Knighton, knee-deep in snow. A cold wind blew and the miles of Glyndwr’s Way crawled by. This is by way of contrasting the weather on the third Lakeland 100 recce – from Pooley […]
Our Welsh Peaks Project took its first steps of the year today with a rounding-off of the Hebogs group, (geographically Y Eifionydd), picking up Y Garn and Mynydd Mawr and visiting a few old friends. Whereas “Nuttall’s list” and its web-based supplements and amendments continue to define the tops for inclusion we have usually preferred […]
The parallel blog to this is “Gillham’s way with Y Garn“, a wonderful walk in the Eifionydd region of Wales. Whilst preparing the maps for walks I also factor-in any convenient caches there may be in the region and, after the Fellsman Recce and the Great Orme visits, I realise there are a great many […]
At 10:33 the war drums started pounding. The deafening noise was absorbed by thousands of legs as they started their involuntary motion. Soon the first wave of 500 runners started moving in time to the voodoo rhythm towards the huge inflatable Start gate. Thus began the 2012 Lakeland Trails series; 8 events spread through the […]
To anyone who has completed the Fellsman Hike, or at least got as far as the Cray checkpoint, the hours spent crossing Fleet Moss, Oughtershaw Tarn and Middle Fell (Yockenthwaite Moor) stand out in the memory. For all the wrong reasons. This 8-mile stretch of the 61-mile route is mostly covered in groughs, hags, perilous […]
29th February 2012 We all need targets, and 22 seemed like a nice number to aim for. I’d decided this before I stumbled across the 29th February event in London – a day I happened to be visiting the Capital. Attending such an event is classed as a “Find”, so I just needed a couple […]
The Whelk and I had booked onto the Anglezarke Amble and right about now, 3pm, we would be setting off for home after we’d each done our respective 16 and 24 mile circuits. Now, the AA is one of the highlights of the running year but the conditions promised much ice and snow and a […]
Marsden to Glossop. 28th January 2012. 22 miles, 4000ft ascent. The Marsden to Edale route, used by a number of endurance events including Tanky’s Trog and the Trigger, is a tough 21-mile North-South traverse of Black Hill, Bleaklow and Kinder Scout. In good weather, ideally after a long dry spell, it is a wonderful day […]
This is developing into a hobby which sits nicely alongside my other activities, such as running, walking and even visiting other locations whilst on business or vacation. Basically, Geocaching is Hide and Seek for the 21st Century. People hide things and you have to find them. There is also a touch of the cloak-and-dagger, dead-letter […]
15th January 2012 Sometimes you push against situations that seem to be telling you to stop. From a logistics point of view the weekend was difficult and most “sensible” people would have understood if I’d said, “Nah, didn’t go – a lot of hard work for a day’s running”. The running in question was the […]
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