WTF a DNF?!
24th June 2017
(2) Leave a commentI pulled over just before the timing mat at 3k, ambled behind a tree and retched repeatedly. Between 2-3k I hadn’t even been running hard – fact was I couldn’t. I heard one of the marshals shout something like “over here…stomach!” and was then asked if I was okay and kindly given water by the […] Keep reading »
Show Your Love for the Lakes
13th December 2015 (0) Leave a commentStorm Desmond has wreaked havoc on the Lakes. Yet the response has been overwhelmingly positive – which comes as no surprise given the strength of community there. No sooner had the trail of destruction begun, there was everybody sharing the events and calling for people to help by showing their love – as this image from […] Keep reading »
Social Running on a Helvellyn Mountain Trail
14th November 2015 (0) Leave a commentHelvellyn 15k was a trail challenge fantastic for myself, Ben, Dan, Simon. For the first time I was being regarded as a #trailrunning veteran – what with Ben having done Hawkshead only – and it being virgin territory for Dan and Simon. By coincidence, Helvellyn had been my first ever trail run and had got me […] Keep reading »
Hawkshead homecoming: Euphoric return to trail running
30th April 2015 (8) Leave a comment2 years battling with Lyme Disease and I was able to return to running a Lakeland Trails #trailrunning event. That it happened to be the Hawkshead 17km – the very event I’d last been able to run in 2013 – felt like I was genuinely on the way back. The omens were good. Ben Keegan […] Keep reading »
