We’ve got some bumps in Essex (300 feet) but our training is done by racing whenever we can. We sometimes travel 40 miles to train on the North Downs in Kent. Probably explains why we’re not very good.

Two of us at Springfield have been fell running for 20 years and have spread the gospel for most of them. We have our own fell championship. We even have our own contrived hill race 1.5miles 450 feet.

We took 30 to Box Hill last week (140 mile round trip) and there are similar numbers going to Long Mynd this weekend (400 mile). If we lived any closer we’d swamp the races.

God only knows what our carbon footprint is.