Hello,
I'm mainly looking for someone to tell me whether I'm being entirely unrealistic - any additional advice about getting started with running up hills is also marvellous.
I started running last spring, mostly on trails but without any massive hills. Am currently running 3 times a week and doing maybe 15 miles a week in total. I've been hillwalking since I was tiny (mainly Peak District and Lake District) because my parents are great and dragged us along as soon as we could manage it, and love mountains with a passion. I also have one hip which hates tarmac but is fine over rough ground. The logical conclusion to all of which is that I need to be fell running.
I've got my eye on the Edale Skyline because I've walked bits of the route for years. Is it remotely feasible for me to run it in 2015? I'm happy to run 3 times a week and keep upping my milage, and am in Derbyshire so have access to hills I can run up and down, but it is a Long Way, and I strongly suspect that a marathon training plan for nice smooth roads is not going to be much cop.
Thanks in advance, and please do say if I'm being overly optimistic.