Gemma’s Bob Graham Round – 14th/15th June 2019 This is a bit late… apologies. But I did the Bob Graham Round on the 14th and 15th of June and I guess it is a bit of a tradition that you tell the tale. So here goes… Over the years, running has become less and less about racing, times […]
Even before I had completed my Bob Graham Round last year I had decided that my next big challenge was going to be a Paddy Buckley Round. It is similar in terms of ascent and distance but widely considered much tougher because of the roughness of the terrain and lack of trods/footpaths. Given the […]
Well all good things must come to an end and my Bob Graham journey came to an end when I climbed the stairs and touched the door of the Moot Hall in Keswick at 7:19pm Saturday 24th June. It was the culmination of 7 months of training and around 5 years of planning, procrastinating, […]
This is my final blog post before my round on Friday. In my first blog I outlined the 4 main concerns I had so now seems like a good time to revisit them: Conditions on the day Still a concern, but during my training I’ve ran in gale force winds, torrential rain and […]
Bob Graham Round account – 26/27 May 2017 It is the Tuesday after I ran up the steps and touched the door of Keswick Moot Hall at 23:19 on Saturday 27 May 2017 to complete a Bob Graham Round and I don’t think I have stopped smiling since. For those that are not familiar the […]
It seems fitting to base this blog post on Iain’s successful round on 27th/28th May. I drove over to the Lakes on the Friday afternoon and arrived at Denton House where we were all staying at around 7-30pm. We walked to Weatherspoon’s to have some food and met Bob who had left his car […]
Well it’s been so long since my last post I’m not sure where to begin. I’ll start with some negatives, mainly injury related. I’ve had a few problems – firstly my right thigh popped during the Rising Sun parkrun which made it difficult to walk nevermind run so a week out there and a […]
Chris Kennedy – Bob Graham Round – 19 June 2010 The idea of attempting the Bob Graham Round first enters your head like any other innocent, passing thought. The difference is this innocent thought gets stuck. Wedged somewhere within your brain. It sits there slowly feeding on the grey matter like an insect’s larva, feeding […]
JIM THOMPSON’S BOB GRAHAM ROUND JUNE, 2008 — MIDNIGHT START Well- there I was standing at the Moot Hall on a dark wet night in June waiting to start my attempt on the BGR. This after coming to fell running at a relatively late age of 34 and hearing of the BGR and thinking of […]
BOB GRAHAM ROUND 1 JUNE 2002 We pored over the weather-line faxes Christine’s Mother had kindly requested. Would it be Saturday or Sunday? Christine, my entire support crew, was due in work on Saturday, however in the end we decided that the weather forecast was more favourable for Saturday, and Christine would be able to […]
