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10.6 miles, 2,861 feet, 3 hours 17 minutes: Rothay Bridge - Miller Bridge - Low Sweden Bridge - rock step - High Sweden Bridge - Scandale - Red...

Weather has been dry for a while now, so good conditions are expected.

10.01 miles, 2,645 feet, 3 hours 29 minutes: Loughrigg trails, including down the race route to the road at High Close, down through Deerbolts Woods...

On the morning of the Scafell Pike race, the summit marshalls set off up Lingmell Nose - and decided that they weren't going any further. So the...

I seem to recall that before it was stripped out and turned into a posh joint with loads of crap on the walls, that it was a better place. It seems...

I (and others) were with him but in essence: the Blue Bell is short on charity.

Did he see you in there paying a lot of money for some food and think 'i pity that guy whoever he is'?

Oh Brett has a story about the Blue Bell...

12.59 miles, 3,252 feet, 3 hours 58 minutes: Rydal Round, starting and finishing in Ambleside, going past, rather than through, the sports field. I...

I was in Paris airport yesterday, and paid 28 Euros for a bowl of Rabbit food (basically a couple of pieces of chicken, tomato and salad, which i had...

I almost forgot, guess how much the Blue Bell in kettlewell wanted for 4 yorkshire puddings and a bowl of gravy? £13.95! The same thing at the Queens...

Results, route gadget etc are here: https://www.sportident.co.uk/results/LDMTA/2024/LDMTA/

2 chin-ups alternating with 1 pull-up. I only managed 6 pull-ups, stopped at 10 x 2 chin-ups. Session lasted 30 minutes.

11.39 miles, 3,335 feet, 3 hours 52 minutes: Wansfell Pike and Loughrigg, including up and down the Wansfell Pike race route, along the ridge to the...

Bit of an extended recce of the Gt Whernside route yesterday, 6m/2000'. I've found a faster route down the scar behind hag dike, but getting to it is...

"Because its hard and you have to use a map" sums it up but the weather today makes it even more challenging.

Press-ups, one arm, alternating, on knees, 20 sets to failure or nearly so; session took 51 minutes: R: 9 - 10 - 9 - 8 - 8 - 8 - 6 - 6 - 6 - 4....

11.48 miles, 3,076 feet, 3 hours 36 minutes: Rothay bridge - Roman Ruins - Borrans Park - Lake Road - Rydal Park - Low Sweden Bridge - rock step -...

10.6 miles, 2,587 feet, 2 hours 55 minutes: Rothay Bridge - Roman Ruins - Borrans Park - Stagshaw Gardens - High Skelghyll - Mirk Lane - Wain Lane -...

Another 50 chin-ups, done in pairs, spread over 46 minutes. I must do something different next time.

There are some photographs on the Fell Running UK FB site which will give you some idea of the terrain MrB.

14.03 miles, 3,128 feet, 4 hours 3 minutes: Rothay Bridge - Bog Lane - Skelwith Bridge - High Park - Little Langdale - Lingmoor - Elterwater - High...

Christos Tzelis. He's very talented and only 19 years old (I think). He's focusing on track, road and triathlon rather than fell. He finished in...

It is a good race. All the "pathless, steep and technical looking descents" are just that. Plenty of thistles too. There is a couple of hundred yards...

I once beat Bashir Hussain to the first corner of the Good Friday Southport 4 mile race.

10.48 miles, 2,937 feet, 3 hours 30 minutes: Rothay Bridge - Miller Bridge - Low Sweden Bridge - rock step - High Sweden Bridge - Scandale - Red...

Is Ilam actually any good? I considered it, but feared all the pathless, steep and technical looking descents were actually tourist steps.

The list of people finishing behind me at the 1981 Kentmere race includes K Shand, J Norman, M Short, P Walkington, R Pilbeam, C Donnelly and H...

Ha ha. Results don't always tell the whole story. I once beat Yiannis Tridimas to First V65 at Thievely Pike and when I expressed my astonishment ...