Chesapeake versus the Mountain - The Crooked Tracks Sagarmatha 24-hour challenge
Crooked Tracks Wiltshire - Sagarmatha, where Jamie Bell, Daz Knight, Will Whitell and Ade McCordick repeatedly climb and descend the same hill 92 times in order to run 100km whilst exceeding the height of Sagarmatha, aka Mount Everest*. * In under 24-hours * On the hottest day of the year (so far) * With no specific hill training ('it'll be more of a challenge with no training...') Stage 1 - 'Should soon smash that out b done in about 16hrs i recon' 11th January 2022 and a new Whatsapp chat group appears on my phone simply called ' Stupid idea ', shortly followed by a message from fellow running club member Jamie: ' Ade u wanna join me, will n daz on this '. I take a look at the details. It looks a very long way to drive to climb a stupid hill and we're not exactly short of hills in Derby. ' Looks stupid ', I say. ' I'm in '. What follows is months of discussion including how the advertised hill steepness (33%)