‘The revolution won’t have an online entry fee, plastic medal or pointless goodie bag.’ I come back to Ian Campbell’s words time and time again. (Campbell once ran up Allermuir, a 493-metre hill in the Pentlands, 29 times over three days, clocking a cumulative ascent that would have seen him summit Everest from sea level.)…
Tag: Scottish hill racing
The champions’ interviews: Jill Stephen
Having finished near the end of the field in her first hill race at Ben Rinnes in 2014, Jill Stephen‘s progression in the sport has been stratospheric. She can’t stop winning. In 2018, she won the Scottish Hill Runners championship, and repeated that feat this year. Like many of her contemporaries, Jill’s motivation is simple…
A story of invincibility, fast feet and Ben Nevis
Imagine running in the same race every year for a decade. Imagine, every time that race weekend comes around, you are fit enough, well enough and lucky enough, to not only be competitive, but to win – to win that race for 10 consecutive years. Now imagine that race was Ben Nevis, the race to…
Heights of Madness 