From Dark and White score event at Calver

Category: Mountain Marathon

Running in the mountains – including adventure racing, mountain marathons and fell running.

Dark and White score event at Calver

Tuesday, 21st February 2012

After exploring the National Forest, or at least a few fields of shrubs, in the Midlands on Saturday, we headed up to Calver in Derbyshire for the Dark and White Mini Mountain Marathon 3 hour score event on Sunday. The weather was glorious and we both had a really enjoyable time. We independently choose the …

A successful OMM

Monday, 31st October 2011

The Original Mountain Marathon, commonly known as the OMM, was in Perthshire, Central Scotland this year. As the OMM website states, this event is the premier UK event to test teamwork, self-reliance, endurance, outdoor and navigational skills and this year was no exception...

Rab MM 2011

Monday, 26th September 2011

The Rab MM in North Wales ... yay!

Our first Mountain Marathon – the 2011 Rab MM

Sunday, 25th September 2011

After months of not very serious training, but very serious complaints due to aches and pains, the weekend of the Rab MM finally dawned...

SLMM 2011 – a practical guide!

Monday, 4th July 2011

The Saunders Lakeland Mountain Marathon was our first mountain marathon this year, so we chose the the hardest class…. why you may ask? well to be honest, all the other classes were full! I’ve tried to include more practical details in this blog than usual to give Pete and Tish a bit more information about …

RAB Mountain Marathon 2010

Wednesday, 13th April 2011

Who do we know from the RAB Mountain Marathon in 2010?

OMM Training Continued

Sunday, 3rd October 2010

While I was Yorkshire 3 Peaking last weekend, Chris went for a run on the Pennines for a few hours. He liked the terrain underfoot and constantly changing vistas so much, we went back yesterday… …to have a stab at simulating Day 1 of the OMM! Rather disappointingly, the weather was fine and visibility good. …