Fellrunning: A Punter’s Guide – The British Championships 2015

Boss
All you will ever need to know about the British Fell Championship lies amongst these words and thoughts spread, like ‘I Can’t Believe It’s Not Butter’, below. So relax. Relax and be amazed by the pure depth of knowledge; the…
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Fellrunning: A Punter’s Guide No. 4 – Carnethy 5

No getting in Fin's way!
Right, you’ve read the shite about the relays but that’s not gonna be a flash in the pan. Oh no. There’s going to be a heck of a lot to get through this year, it’s only January after all and…
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Fellrunning: A Punter’s Guide No. 3 – Devil’s Burdens Relay

Ohhhh fuck.....here....they....come!!
Hello! It’s 2015, shit’s been happening already and if you’re not careful you’re gonna miss it! Here in north Britain there’s been coming on 5 fell races and it’s only day four of the month! How does that maths work…
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Fellrunning: A Punter’s Guide No. 2 – The Bob Graham Round

No, that's not Lingmoor behind him....
I was reminded today, whilst Instagram stalking a certain Mr. Rickey Gates, an American man – or ‘Ameriman’ if you will – of the Bob Graham Round (BGR in hip parlance) and, more specifically, Billy Bland’s frankly ridiculous record. I…
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Fellrunning: A Punter’s Guide No. 1 – Langdale Horseshoe

Ambleside's finest...him wit crazy name
The first in a new series of posts where I look at various races around the fell running calendar, make up spurious and illogical data, which I then present as historical fact, in order to support outlandish conclusions and finally…
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Does the media affect YOUR climbing/running style?

No? Oh. Confused by what I’m on about? You’re not alone, I don’t really understand where I’m going with this but I’ll give it a whirl and if you’re still with me at the end then we should maybe see…
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Sierre-Zinal and Les Alpinistes 2014

And so……. And so a couple of weeks ago I set off in my trusty steed ‘Jean-Claude’ (not my little Belgian bummer boy) and swept across the Gallic lowlands to nestle atop a perch in that sphere of unpredictability known…
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July = bleeding nips at Arrochar and other stuff too

Let’s see what odds and sods Google drags in from their search engines with a blog title like this shall we?! If you’re new to this site……welcome. It’s probably not what you were expecting!Luckily it was hot enough at the…
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