Quote Originally Posted by Alan Lucker View Post
Lack of salt for the amount of sweating, combined with long hard efforts seam to lead to a build up of lactic acid. I think this is the combination, and reason, that gives me cramp. I think liquid is needed to get enough salt through fast enough during a long hard run, the only other way would be salty food with plain water. I have tried running with a minimal liquid and food intake and have cramped up a lot near the end after about 4 hours.
I agree that training for the gradient of climb will help. Snowdon is in a lot of parts runnable, finding those sorts of runnable climbs to train on would definitely help. Probably in you getting used to processing lactic acid efficiently at the given effort levels. Intervals too..... Horrible I know but useful.
Aye before the snowdon race I always had a few key sessions.. first was tempo runs for 20 mins, either to half way, base of allt moses or the top half, and a few continual runs up, plus reps on that sort of gradient, 5 x 4 mins, and then a steep steps session.. which I think helps for allt moses itself.. so vivian steps..

The main thing was undoubtably getting used to running and not walking at that gradient, its far more runnable than most proper mountain fell races.