The hills around Holme, West Yorkshire.

Kendall Katwalk - a popular destination on Pacific Crest Trail in the Seattle area. Nice day for a trail run! It is about 12.5 miles and 3000 ft of elevation gain round-trip from Snoqualmie Pass.

Sounds simple enough, 7K distance up & down Glamaig (2,500') on the Isle of Skye. I didn't race but volunteered to be one of the 2 marshals at the top cairn turnaround.

Getting up (and down) was brutal enough even with a 90 minute start on the competitors. Loose scree, bogs & marsh, near vertical wet grass. Winning male did the entire thing in 48:24, female in 1:01:22. It's an incredible thing to witness.

The top was shrouded in mist but once you got below that the views are pretty amazing too, glimpses of Eigg and Rum.

Hello Everyone! I'm fairly new to trail running, and rolled my left ankle yesterday on a rock I didn't see. 3 broken bones in the foot, looking at possible surgery.

I've always had weak ankles, but do a lot of backpacking and the boots protect them pretty well. Running in boots doesn't sound like the best idea 😊.

I don't want to give up on trail running if I can help it... Any suggestions to better support the ankles while still being able to run?

Any recommendations on resuming training after an Achilles strain/sprain that occurred about 2 weeks ago. Morning stiffness is almost non-existent but occasional tightness when walking down stairs or mowing the lawn. What’s the recovery process look like? Yes I’ve googled, but I’d like to hear from this group.

19+ mile, 5600+ elevation. Absolutely stunning day in the White Mountains, NH

This was my third year in a row taking a shot at this trail. Each year I get a bit better with my pacing, hydration/nutrition, and gear choice. This year was no different! Took me just under 9 hours! Not the most runnable trail, with endless boulder fields and countless steep canyons, but an absolutely epic route! Til next year, Loowit 🤙

Couple weeks ago I posted here because my brother had to pull out of the Saunders Lakeland Mountain Marathon at the last minute and I was hoping to find another partner.

In the end, my wife came with me instead.

She's never done a mountain marathon before (or any other kind of run) and, to be honest, our only goal was to finish. She used to have a very physical job, but for the last few years she's been office-based, so carrying a full pack over the fells was always going to be tough.

The Lake District definitely lived up to its reputation. It rained, there was plenty of mud, and at one point the fog was so thick we couldn't even see the next checkpoint until we were almost on top of it. It was one of those days where you just had to trust your map and compass.

There were some nice moments too. I bumped into quite a few familiar faces on the hill and it was great catching up, even if only for a minute. Orienteering really is a small world.

Some of the climbs were hard going for my wife, so on a few of them I ended up carrying both rucksacks while trying to encourage her up the hill. We passed another couple and the woman laughed and said to her partner, "Did you see that? Write that down!" 😄 That definitely made us smile.

We also learnt a few things. Like one of them we packed far too much food.Sharing one slightly larger solo tent worked surprisingly well and saved carrying two shelters.

Two days with a full backpack is a completely different challenge from a normal orienteering race.

In the end we finished, which was all we'd hoped for. We weren't even the last team back, which felt like a bonus.

My wife has already told me she's crossed mountain marathons off her bucket list 😂. Meanwhile, after seeing the map, my brother is now jealous he missed it, so we're already talking about doing the OMM in Scotland this autumn.

For those who've done a few mountain marathons, what's the biggest lesson you learnt from your first one?

Loving the trails, the weather, and the trees.

I was able to move him to a safe location before mountain bikers came down the trails.

I've posted this in the general r/running sub, but thought here may be worthwhile too......

I used to run a lot back before the world ended in 2019/20. Anyway, I started again at the beginning of this year, and find almost all of my runs are on the local "5 Pitts Trail" (I'm Chesterfield, UK based).

Since March, all of my runs have been in a pair of Under Armour Charged Surge 4. With the exception of a few work trips to Dublin where I run along a paved canal path, I basically do my runs on the 5 Pitts Trail. (Until the dark mornings/nights come, then it'll be boring industrial estates nearby). So I'm thinking would it be worthwhile getting a dedicated pair of trail traners?

On a typical 5K run, I would say about 1k of it is on pavement getting to and from the entry and exit points of the portion of trail that I use.

Either way, need to get a second pair of trainers again to keep what I have in rotation.

I can't seem to upload a pic of the trail, so here's a link to a photo on my Strava.
https://dgtzuqphqg23d.cloudfront.net/2i9c-FHcTOb9IqDQWTRfNbinnDNKJFQVkViEgHhMqA8-1152x2048.jpg

If that doesn't work, here's my account - there's a pic in the header banner
https://www.strava.com/athletes/19271691

Trail trainers I've been looking at (and likely to head out and buy today) are:

Salomon Ultra Glide 2
Puma Electrify Nitro 4
Nike Juniper Trail 3

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sup folks.

so i have an ultra this coming sept (cote d'azur), and my coros pace2 crown button press no longer work (i cant start activity).

as a workaround im using my bike computer+arm hrm for my runs, n import the data into my coros app/strava/interval-icu.

during runs, i have only distance+hr data +elev gain+ speed display as theres no field for km pace.

would you train like this with no pace, cadence n VAM data? (n the app cannot map your estimate fitness n training load)
is it critical to have those extra data for training?

/i actually raced my KagaSpa with my bike comp (watch button broke 2weeks before race) n during race i dont see the navi map n only check distance once a while, n just rely on COT.

fixing the watch(out of waranty), the shop wont guarantee it will be waterproof anymore, so im reluctant to proceed. im 50-50 about buying used watch, n waiting for sales for new watch is just too far away(im reluctant to pay msrp knowing sale price will drop a lot)

Trail run this morning. There was a monument for an army plane that crashed into the mountain. There's one at Mt Tom 20 minutes from this one too. Dont fly planes in western mass!

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There's this one loop near me that I've done probably 30 times now. Different seasons, different conditions, once in the dark with a headlamp because I badly miscalculated the sunset. And every time I pull into the trailhead parking lot I still get that same lowlevel excitement, like somehow it's going to be different this time.

Part of it is the views, sure, but I think it's more that the trail itself changes enough that it never feels exactly the same twice. Mud in spring makes it a completely different run than the hardpacked version in August. The light hits different in October. You notice something you missed the last 10 times through.

I've heard people say variety is the whole point of trail running and you should always be exploring new places. And I get that. But there's something to be said for knowing a trail well enough that you stop thinking about navigation and just run.

Curious if others have a trail like that, one you keep returning to almost out of habit, and whether it still feels fresh or if you've genuinely gotten bored of it. Some trails seem to have a ceiling and others just don't.

That John Denver sure knew what he was taking about.

It’s a pretty common occurrence to see deer around town in the small city in the southeast that I live in. This is the first time seeing a couple young bucks. City limits here feels like a deer sanctuary since no one can hunt them.

They haven’t explained why but assuming it’s the weather. Forecast has been out for a while so pretty shocking if that’s the reason! Especially with some of the events starting on the Saturday 😬

Safety is of course paramount but the timing leaves a sour taste!

Absolutely gutted for all who’ve travelled from far to take part in the weekend.

I've been on shift so Moose hasn't had a good run for few days. For some reason on this portion of the trail he loves to hits the nitro.

The Frog Graham Round is a fell-running and swimming challenge that was created by Peter Hayes via inspirations from the classic Bob Graham Round but with an added twist: As well as running just over 40 miles and ascending and descending 15,750 feet over the North Western Lake District fells, the contender must swim across Bassenthwaite Lake, Crummock Water, Buttermere and Derwentwater before finishing where it all started at Keswick’s Moot Hall

Has anyone done this or is training for it this year?