At last I can sit here without the weighty thought of my first Trail Marathon fast approaching, it’s over & done with & I can now focus on organising The Moel Siabod Fell Race in 2 weeks time before driving off to the Alps with Fraser a week later. The Welsh 1,000 metre race was as always a great event, we’d been expecting a heatwave but ended up with cool cloudy summits which were far

The date has now been firmed up to tie in with both The Moel Siabod Fell Race & the Capel Curig Carnival in the hope that we can make Capel Curig the place to be & linger in for a long & relaxed (except for the runners) day. The Storyville Mob will return to headline the evening with support from ‘The Beaten Track’, Mick Hedge & a further act yet to be confirmed. He doesn’t

On a beautiful Saturday afternoon I set off a bit later than planned to have a crack at beating my time set in March last year. The real aim though was to get in a good training session for next weekend’s Welsh 1,000 metre race. The conditions were nigh on perfect, a T shirt sufficed in bright sunshine but a cool breeze & conditions under foot were relatively dry. After hitting Siabod’s summit in 51

Hot of the press a new act has just been added to the Bill in the form of VIN MURTAGH (The Beaten Track), thanks Vin, looking forward to hearing you, hope you like the venue too.

Well Fraser & I gave what should be our final Nepal Presentation last Friday in a great teepee venue at the Keswick Mountain Festival. It seemed to go down well, we think, although trying to cram everything into a 45 minute slot was not easy. Still, had time for quite a few questions at the end, if you attended we hope you enjoyed it. It was the start of a frenatic weekend involving two Italian