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From Budapest Marathon
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From Rab Mountain Marathon 2012
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From The best days are never planned
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From Bjorkliden Arctic Mountain Marathon
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From Saunders Mountain Marathon 2012
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From Setanta Ireland Rogaine 2012
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From Lowe Alpine Midge Marathon (LAMM) 2012
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From Bagging my First Munro
Category: Running
Running! How else can it be described?
I’d always been a bit nervous of trying a XC race because I wasn’t sure what I was letting myself in for. However, I was told it was basically just a race, quite short but usually muddy. The first XC of this series was the first XC for both Sarah and myself. It was held …
The Budapest Marathon is very popular as it has a beautiful route along both banks of the Danube and across several of the beautiful bridges.
This year the Rab Mountain Marathon started from Wooler in Northumberland. This event is ‘score’ format, meaning that you have 6 hours on day 1 and 5 hours on day 2 to locate as many controls as possible. The controls are worth varying numbers of points, and the largest point count wins, so tactics and …
The weather forecast wasn’t great but I decided to go ahead with my planned trip to the Lakes with the most hardy of my friends, the others having bailed out.
We’ve always fancied doing the BAMM. It’s 200km North of the Arctic circle, and has always sounded like the greatest adventure of all the mountain marathons. This year we decided we had to do it, even though Bjorkliden is a full day of travel each way from Stockholm, and the whole trip ends up being …
Friday of the Saunders MM dawned with gloom; it was horrendously wet and I was feeling pretty rough. This was unfortunate because I had a mountain marathon to run and I was running with Mark, who is mid-way through his (self-imposed) challenge to run 12 marathons in 12 months for The Meningitis Trust. Luckily, from …
This is the third time we’ve ran the Setanta Ireland Rogaine; the lure of running/orienteering for 24 hours without stopping is somewhat attractive, but it’s not just the challenge that draws us back to Ireland, it’s also the bizarre and random things that always happen when we cross the Irish Sea. This year was no …
The 2012 LAMM: beautiful scenery, hard work, terrible midges, and my first ever Munro summit...
