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Coming to running: The Lakeland 50

(@45670!) A confluence of events into the post-lockdown period of 2021 meant that coherent training for the epic Lakeland 50 race just was not possible. At this point my longest race was 10 miles, and I had no way of knowing how I would find this 50 miles ultra. 3000m of ascent made it doubly […]

If not the TGOC then …. why not the Lakeland 100?

Leave a Comment / backpacking, Lake District, outdoors, running, TGO Challenge / 06/08/2019

Sometimes we cannot do the TGOC. When this last happened to me the Cape Wrath Trail (CWT) beckoned. In an earlier note I described the first half – planned as a mountain route. After illness moved the trip from May round to a rainy October, it became more low-level covering some of the areas frequented

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