Pentland Skyline report

[Tim]

You're too self-effacing, Tim. Perhaps we're easily impressed over here, but those distances you do, and the challenges (running up and down Ben Nevis, if you please...) seem pretty astounding.

What I'm trying to convey (if not terribly successfully) is that if I can do it, it's well within the bounds of most mortals.

Over the years I've come to realize that many of the physical limits that we assume we have aren't physical at all but mental. Run the whole West Highland Way in one go? Ridiculous! But in actual fact, it's just a long hike with stretches of running. I won't say "no big deal" but I'm convinced that many more people could do it once they've got past the mental hurdles.

I don't see myself as being physically extraordinary in any sense, I've just cleared a few mental hurdles that others have yet to clear.