3.20am alarm clocks, Richmond Park in the dead of night and Shoreditch at peak Saturday night .. it was a crazy weekend running for me. Come and share your own stories below the line as always
This weekend, an ultra running event took place. A concept so extreme that only a handful of people have ever finished it, and a documentary has even been made about it*. No, not the Barkley Marathon (though that did take place this weekend and spoiler alert: there were no finishers). No, this race took place through the mean streets of London. 150-odd miles of them.
The London Peaks race is the creation of Rick Pearson of Runners World. For a while he did a podcast series where he walked to the highest point of each London borough with an interesting local resident, chatting about the locale and other interesting stuff. But just walking these peaks wasn’t enough for Rick. No, he had a dream. A dream of running between every single one of them, peak to peak, in one day. It’s entirely possible Rick eats a bit too much cheese before bedtime.
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