The Lakes 3000′

by Madman2 Posted on August 4, 2008

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The Challenge

A friend of mine recently said ‘set yourself a real challenge’, (you know who you are now see what you’ve made me do!). Well I did, the trip up Scafell Pike from Langdale was challenging for a first day on the fells for over a year. Having now completed that I think I need another, The Lakes 3000ft Peaks in 24hrs sounds about enough. According to Ken Wilson’s book ‘The Big Walks’ thats 16 to 20 hours and 46 miles and includes 11,000ft of ascent.
According to friends I’m Mad, but I’ll give myself enough time to train and set a target of completing the round before this time next year.
What then….’The Bob Graham Round?’

About Madman2

Iconoclast, recently lost all sanity, shaved moustache off after 33 years and still getting used to it, taken up fell running of sorts. Interests: Mountaineering, food, cooking, people, friends, politics, education, photography, thinking, kites, making people laugh, fell running, adventure running. Favourite Films: The Long Good Friday, Laurence of Arabia, Thomas Crown Affair, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Slumdog Millionaire, Fargo, anything by Poliakoff. Favourite Music: Jazz, Norah Jones, Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Joss Stone, Dido, Dave Brubek, John Coltrain, Florence and the Machine, Lily Allen Favourite Books: The Unconsoled, Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency, The White Spider, Touching the Void
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