Bob Graham Round: 12 hours 52 minutes !!!

[Bierzo Baggie]

https://www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...ace-record

Highlight of the year in sport ...the England football team? ....you're having a laugh   

At the weekend, in a respectful, low key fashion very much in line with the minority sport which is fell-running, Kilian Jornet smashed the record which many said would never be broken. Billy Bland was waiting in Keswick High Street to shake Kilians hand and open a bottle of champagne along with a few hundred lucky witnesses to this piece of sporting history. Nobody was trashing ambulances or jumping off double decker buses either. All very civilized.

[marathondan]

Nice. Marathontalk reported this week on Nicky Spinks, record-holder (both sexes) for the Double Bob, who has now become the first person to complete a Double Ramsay. https://www.inov-8.com/blog/nicky-spinks...say-round/

[Bierzo Baggie]

Cheers Dan ...equally amazing achievement from Nicky Spinks.

Here's an account from Kilian himself. Interesting to see that Rob Jebb helped pace him. Kilian took 6 or 7 attempts to beat Jebb's record at Zegama. I reckon that if Jebb had attempted the Bob Graham seriously a few years ago (when he was in his prime) he was certainly capable of recording a similar time. We will never know...

https://fastmountains.com/2018/07/10/bob-graham-round/

[marathondan]

A nice audioblog by Tony Audenshaw on MT 445 of his experience of supporting a Bob Graham attempt a couple of weeks after Jornet. Not quite so glamorous... well worth a listen, for a chuckle. Download here https://marathontalk.com/shows/episode-4...-woodward/ and fast forward to 39:55 (12 mins long).