Winter 2018/2019
It has all been very quiet on my blog since September! I am still here and after an arduous winter am hopefully re-emerging! After Bantham swimun, Izzy and I went off to Cannes for the inaugural Ötillö...
View ArticleItera 2019 Team Introduction
This year my main race will be Itera Expedition race in Scotland in early August. It’s for a team of 4 and we’ll be on the move for 5 days, trekking, mountain biking, kayaking and possible other modes...
View ArticleTeam Lochland Runner – Itera Top Tips
Team Lochland Runner all got together for a training weekend recently. Included on the itinerary were sharing our top tips for expedition adventure racing and planning our strategy! Chloe is new to...
View ArticleItera Scotland 2019 – part 1
It has taken me a while to start this report – to let the race sink in and to get over the dreaded lurgy sufficiently to have energy to write! We were number 26, Team Lochland Runner – Andrea, Chloe,...
View ArticleItera Scotland 2019 – part 2
Foot stage: 13km trek / 8h45 2h sleep 26km trek / 10h36 / finish stage 16:50 Wednesday And so we set off up our first big mountain. Everyone was tackling An Teallach. I haven’t been there before, but...
View ArticleItera Scotland 2019 – part 3
Foot stage: 24.7km trek / 8h55 / finish time 15:55 Thursday A bit of a false start to this stage as we set off down the road the wrong way – transition wasn’t marked on the map in quite the right...
View ArticleOpen 5 – Yorkshire Dales, Cracoe
Well, I am extremely out of the race reporting habit, despite managing a few races like Malta swimrun, Marmot dark mountains and some local trail events! Maybe I will come back to them, but I didn’t...
View ArticleUTS 100km – the race that almost was
Snowdon range – saving that for the second day! UTS (Ultra Trail Snowdonia) 2020 was postponed, hung in the balance, reduced in size and, with a week to go, cancelled. I was gutted, but almost...
View ArticleScurry Events – Yellowcraigs Swimrun
This was my first actual, in person race since … March 2nd 2020! Izzy originally signed up to do this with Andy, it didn’t run last year due to sea conditions. And so this year it came round, and I...
View ArticleHokey Cokey Roseland Swimrun
We’ve had our eyes on the Mad Hatters races after hearing great reviews and meeting the organisers at other events, so when we saw a new long course being proposed we signed up! This was so many...
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