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  • Saturday, 3 May 2025 6:30 pm

    Bob Graham Round, leg 4 clockwise

    Last year I ran leg 1 of a friend’s anticlockwise Bob Graham Round with him as a pacer. This was in the catatonic lee of the Fellsman, and I was letting my fitness drain away a little bit, and my Fellsman training had overindexed on distance rather than elevation, and I was also wearing the wrong pair of shoes: so on the descent down Dale Head I sort of fell behind by a couple of minutes and only barely arrived at Honister before my friend set off again up Grey Knotts.

    Nearly a year has passed since then, and very little running in the Lakes in the meantime. I have, however, at least started to pay lip service to climbing in Castle Eden Dene at the North York Moors, so I was keen to see whether I could keep up on a group Striders run on a clockwise leg 4 recce over the bank holiday weekend.

    A view up Wasdale Head, with the famous stone walls splitting the fields and the hulks of Sca Fell, Great Gable, and Kirk Fell towering above
    Looking back up a narrow path between rock crags leading up to the top of Scoat Fell
    A view across to a craggy massif with a grassy landscape dotted with rocks in the foreground
    A view down Mosedale, with four runners picking their way through the boulder field on the lefthand slope, looking across to Kirk Fell and Great Gable in the distance

    Pleased to report that it went well: either due to company, or fine weather, or dry conditions, or judicious use of salt capsules, I finished the 17-mile run in good fettle, a little tuckered out but not unable to keep climbing if necessary. A Bob is not in my immediate future, but I’m glad to know that I can at least dispatch pacing duties without catastrophe.

    Leg 4 recce with the all-stars on Strava

    Running Bob Graham Round Striders



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