Category: Running
Running! How else can it be described?
Capricorn Mountain Marathon
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 …
Saunders Lakeland Mountain Marathon
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 … …
Lowe Alpine Mountain Marathon
Mini LAMM, Keswick
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 …