Conquering the 3 peaks

To keep us all motivated to keep fit while are spending more time at home because of lockdown we set ourselves the ambitious challenge of running and walking a combined total of 3408m uphill in a single week. We took our inspiration from the famous '3 peaks' challenge and this figure is the height of the tallest mountains in each country of Great Britain (Scotland, Scafell Pike (978m); England, Ben Nevis (1,345m); Wales, Snowdon (1,085m)).

The previous 7 days (24th April - 1st May) we managed 1542m in elevation, so we had some serious work ahead of us if we wanted to meet our goal.

By Tuesday we had climbed Snowdon and by Friday we had climbed Scafell Pike and then the last day of our challenge Lucy climbed to the summit of Ben Nevis (by way of Kelston Roundhill!).

I certainly don't do this much hill training usually (instead preferring the flat of Bath's canal path) but this challenge motivated me to run up some of those nasty Bath hills. I hope this will give us all some more motivation to add in hill training from time to time to make it easier for our regular Group Runs once they get started up again.

Well done for such a fantastic effort to everyone to took part and thanks for getting involved to keep our community together in these difficult and isolated times.