Author: Bodil With only 43 Munro's to go, the end is coming in sight. In week 9 Lisa and Libby faced one of their biggest challenges, the Cuillin Ridge. For many people a continuous traverse is a lifetime goal, with the ridge providing tricky navigation (magnetic rock makes your compass useless), scrambling and sections of rock … Continue reading The Big Munro Round: Week 9
Author: CORIN Week 8 has been eventful as the girls progress even closer to their goal! It's included fun scrambling on ridges, a delicious pub meal, their 200th Munro and a horrid midge apocalypse. Libby wrote: This week has been Fun! We started the week with a scramble up the Forcan ridge onto The Saddle. … Continue reading The Big Munro Round: Week 8
Author: Bodil Weeks are flying by now, and the girls are past the halfway point and also have no more Munro's to tick off in the South of Scotland! Libby wrote: The start of this week (7th August) was a day of celebrations. It was Lisa's birthday which she celebrated by eating an entire coffee … Continue reading The Big Munro Round: Week 6
Author: Bodil Lisa and Libby have started their Big Munro round at 12am on Monday 3rd of July, 2017. Corin and I came up on the weekend to join them, running three Munro days with them! The week started off on the Isle of Mull, with one Munro and a kayak onto the mainland. Lisa … Continue reading The Big Munro Round: Week 1
Authors: Lisa and Bodil Last autumn Bodil and Lisa took on the OMM (Original Mountain Marathon) which was held in Galloway Forest Park, Glentrool, Scotland. Read about how they got on during this test of endurance and navigation.. What are mountain marathons? Mountain marathons are generally two day running events where competitors have to be entirely … Continue reading OMM – Mountain Marathon in Glentrool
AUTHOR: CORIN Exploring the Lake District – That is one of my goals for this year and this past weekend that’s just what I did. I’ve only been to the Lakes once before, for the Saunders Mountain Marathon in July 2016 and I fell in love with the place. Luna and I drove up Friday night … Continue reading Exploring the Lake District: Coniston Area
AUTHOR: Lisa Last week Lisa, Libby and Bo hatched a very last minute plan to run Hadrian's wall over 3 days on the first weekend of April. Still buzzing from the High Peak Marathon we were, perhaps foolishly, quite casual about the challenge that lay ahead! Early April is slightly before the regular season to … Continue reading Hadrian’s Wall – Running the width of England
AUTHOR: CORIN Fastest marathon in a Ghillie Suit (female) 3:59:13. In May of 2015, I entered the ballot to run the London Marathon, somewhat by accident but that is a story for another day. Fast-forward to October when I arrive home one evening from work to open an envelope containing a magazine proclaiming acceptance to the London … Continue reading My Guinness World Record
AUTHOR: LISA This year I managed to get an extended period of leave from work. As I needed to continue training for HPM and was missing fellow BogBeauty Ali Gover (who now resides in Blenheim), I decided to head to New Zealand! I had the time of my life fitting in loads of walking and running … Continue reading Running around the NZ tourist trail
Author: Bodil Our last few months of race preparation for HPM 2017, summarised in 20 photos.
