Category: Running
Running! How else can it be described?
6.4 km up The Hay, and back down. After R&R’s amazing mountain marathon blog I am a bit reluctant to post this one, but can’t help being pleased with myself: I got my first trail race prize, winning my class!! 🙂 🙂 Sorry to use the blog to brag, but it probably won’t happen again!
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 …
Our last two days were spent in Cattinaccio...
A beautiful walk in a deserted valley...
We spent Saturday running around the Forest of Dean. I think we probably travelled about 18 miles in total, which isn’t a bad effort after our first proper run last weekend. In brief, we ran along the River Wye to Monmouth, then through Wyesham, across the fields and forest to Staunton, then more forest and …
A weekend in Derbyshire with the inlaws was planned, so in preparation, Richard and I headed into Derbyshire a couple of hours in advance to burn some energy. We arrived in Hope at about 0930 and were soon on our way to Castleton. After helping one of the two remaining true WMCEG members with some …
It was forecasted to be very wet on Saturday, so we knew we wouldn't be out climbing. We decided we should take advantage of the non-climbing weather and get in some more running training. To entertain us we thought we'd combine the running with a little letter boxing - good practice for navigating while running.
At last, after nearly four weeks my heel has recovered enough from an embarrassing injury caused by running across the road in Carlisle trying to catch a train home! So today we went for a run - well more of a jog, or perhaps a fast walk - to get back in to our fell running training...
