Ade Runs

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%)...

The Fractured Marathon, Calke Abbey, 30th November 2021. The Fractured Marathon, organised by Peak-Running, consists of 10 timed laps around Calke Abbey, Ticknell, Derbyshire.  For this event, each lap is 2.6 miles (4.2km) in length with each lap starting on the half-hour between 5pm and 10pm and competitors can only start the next lap if they are back within 30-minutes.  Therefore, runners have to complete all ten laps to achieve the full marathon distance. There is the option to either run the course as part of a team with each member running between 2 and 5 laps, or else to do the whole lot solo.  I opted for the solo run. I was drawn to this event due to the opportunity to do some night racing, with sunset towards the end of the second lap.  There also seemed to be a degree of strategy to the whole event i.e. do you race round in 24-25 minutes and allow yourself 5-6 minutes of rest each lap, or do you take your time and have a relaxed 28-29 minute lap with only a...