It was the Yomp yesterday. I much prefer the old name 'Mallerstang Yomp', but as far as I'm aware the challenge is the same: 23 miles
walking or running with around 4,300 feet of climb
We ran the event back in 2010 when I was training for my first (failed, two)
Bob Graham attempts and that day was misty. So misty in fact that yesterday I
couldn't remember any of the second half of the route from our previous outing!
The route is unusual in that it seems to have a lot more ascent than descent (I
suspect this is because the climbs are ploddy and long; probably just all about
runnable) and the descents are fairly steep (the last descent is the second half
of a popular annual fell race)
Yesterday was a counter for our club championships ('Extreme' category) and
because of that there were six runners out in club colours, which is about
three or four more than a lot of longer challenge events we do. Last time we
Yomped we did 4 hours 44 minutes but as usual I'd forgotten the exact time.
Yesterday we did 4 hours 42 minutes. There's nothing like consistency is there?
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