The Scottish Islands Peak race 2011

I know nothing about sailing so when I first heard about this race, I thought I would never get to do it even though I really liked the sound of it. Then one day about two months ago an email was sent around the Bowline climbing club email list, advertising “Fell runner needed for Scottish Island Peaks race” and I replied straight away with my running CV and experience living on non-sailing boats in choppy high latitude seas. Harry Longman, a relatively recent Bowline member was the fell runner without a partner and soon enough I was officially on the team!

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Welsh 1000m Peaks Race was held on 4th June, 2011, where competitors run through all the five 1000-metres peaks in Snowdonia (or Wales). Five Bowliners participated it (and all of them climbed on the following day), and another six stayed in the weekend in our lovely hut. Two of the latter five did a supporting run in the middle of night for their friends' attempt of Paddy Buckley Round (an extremely tough fell-running challenge in North Wales; supporting runners' role is by no means easy, either — running with challengers on hilly and rough terrains for a few hours, carrying water, waterproof etc), then went biking the following morning. And I myself tried on my dream climbing route.

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