My West Highland Way race report

[Tim]

Fantastic report, Tim, and an incredible achievement. I just can't get my head around a 95 mile race. Just astonishing. I felt knackered just reading about it. Very, very impressed. And there I was, ducking out of my 7 mile run at the weeknd because it was too hot.... I'm feeling chastised.

Out of interest, have you tried any of the long races talked about in Feet In The Clouds?

Thanks Andy. I know that when you stop and think about it, 95 miles seems utterly inconceivable but when you're actually doing it, you don't think of it like that. It was a big help having done the Devil O the Highlands race last year (Tyndrum to Fort William) and having done training runs over much of the more southern stretches. As I said, my longest training run was only 27 miles so it just goes to prove you don't have to run mega-milage to finish one of these races.

The trick is to learn to run very slowly indeed. Once you've mastered that, the world is your edible bivalve. ;-)

Much as I'd like to, I've never run any races south of the border apart from the London marathon. Don't feel quite ready for the Bob Graham round, well at least not this coming weekend. ;-)