This weekend was the Capricorn Mountain Marathon. A two day long orienteering event with the central campsite near Glossop in Derbyshire. Richard and I competed in the A and C courses respectively. I chose the C course on the basis of our impending holidays being rather physical (6 days orienteering in Scotland followed by a [...]

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Last weekend Richard and I ran the Saunders Lakeland Mountain Marathon (the Kirkfell class); another two day mountain orienteering event, carrying all overnight gear. This wasn’t the expected destination for the weekend, however on Tuesday we discovered a team on the internet who were injured and therefore needed a team to take their place … [...]

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June 9th-10th was the Lowe Alpine Mountain Marathon. Four of us embarked to Scotland for the weekend; Richard and John and Pete and I. We were all to embark on the C class .... 45 k of orienteering, carrying everything required for the night...

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Richard Dearden and I embarked on the mini- Lowe Alpine Mountain Marathon on Thursday. This event was organised as part of the Keswick Mountain Festival; starting from near Lattrig in Keswick, the idea was to find as many of the 19 control as possible in 4 hours. These were spread throughout the valley and hills [...]

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A weekend of rest and recuperation was needed and hence, with the team name, "A weekend of R and R", Richard Dearden and I embarked on the Highlander Mountain Marathon...

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