Nepal - Annapurna Circuit October 2014


When the mountains call, you have to go.


After putting off this trip for years, it could no longer be delayed, it was holding back all the other plans and it had to be done. Flight booked, got 3 weeks off work, packed and gone.


I originally planned to leave on 11 October, but decided to put off the trip 1 week so to run the Pentlands Skyline on 12 October, and this race may have saved my life, or at least a long trip for nothing:


http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2014_Nepal_snowstorm_disaster


The news coming from Nepal were scaring, the Thorong La Pass was officially closed until the situation would get better. I didn't know if I would manage to walk all the circuit, but there was only a way to find it out, go there and see what the situation was like.

Pentlands Skyline Race 2014

12 October 2014


Described as “a 17mile hill run with no medals or T-shirts. It's a race against the terrain, the elements and most of all against yourself” this race had to be run and 2014 had to be the year.

The Pentlands have been a good training ground for the previous marathons, but I only knew part of them as my running route never passed in their Western side. I had no clue how the terrain conditions would be there, I just assumed they couldn't be very different from the other side...how wrong was I!