Lowe Alpine Mountain Marathon (Running)

Thursday 07 June 2007 02:51PM

I’m entered for my first LAMM this weekend.

Running in Elite class with Jon Morgan. Should be a right giggle, we’ve got all sorts of ridiculous weight saving ideas; fuel blocks instead of a stove, chinese takeaway trays instead of pans, blizzard bags instead of sleeping bags, bubble wrap instead of karrimats etc etc. The biggest decision seems to be how much food to take. I never eat as much while running as I plan to, but then again the last thing you want is to run out of hill food half way round day two, could be crucial…

The venue has just been announced as Auchtertyre, near Crianlarich, not an area I know that well, I’ve done a few winter climbing routes near there though. Weather looks good for the weekend, the more running and less navigation the better as far as I’m concerned!