Its a pain of a run cos itās just straight up with no respite. Grand when youāve only an hour but youāve no relief at all till the top.
This is a lad I was in college with who does a fair bit of trail running. This would be insanity in my view but fair fucks to him
The Killoscully side would possibly be coming up from Gloun. Thay would be a very steep open mountain climb and descent back down.
Yes, ran up and down keeper in Asics road shoes many many times.
Iām thinking of doing Kerry Way Lite in September. Youād be well able for it mate.
58k? I would in my fuck!
Elevation isnāt much though. I think approx 1300m which sounds a lot but over 58km isnāt too bad. I know that over the course of 60km, Iād be walking the guts of 15km+ at a minimum.
Elevation wouldnāt bother me. Iāve never run beyond 21km and donāt have much appetite for it either!
I just looked at your Strava from today. What kind of surface was there en route to the top? You had a very good pace for that elevation. Much faster than Iād do it these days.
Iāve done a fair few legs of the Kerry way now.
If you were confident with the weather I canāt think of many better ways to spend a few days, my wife and daughter did most of it over 4 days and three nights, that was walking
Ah the first 2.5k are gravel fire roads. Then about a km of softer path. You hop a fence then and the last 500m to the top is pure rough mountain terrain. Almost impossible to run on due to surface and incline.
Its pure terrain coming from the other side but I need someone to show me the way, thatāll be in the next few weeks. I went over the top and down a bit and then came back up on myself. Much more enjoyable on that type of terrain than fire roads obviously.
Thatās a grand track. A fair bit of what Iād be doing lately would be what is left of the track
Youāre the next grade up from me anyway. Most of what Iām doing is on pre worn paths or waymarked routes. Mainly since most of it is on my own. Once I get out with a few others I can explore a bit more.
I was similar a few weeks ago. Not being able to run fast sessions was getting to me and was a bit fed up with it all, but seemed to turn a corner to past 2 weeks. I got a few decent fast kms under the belt on Wednesday and Iāve been buzzing since.
Going to give the 10 mile a rattle tomorrow and see how it goes
It seems the pressure of INTERNET challenges is causing cracks to appear all over the place
Ah I wouldnāt say anything bout a grade up. Iām fierce slow. Weāre lucky that some of the mountain bikers have little trails made but other times we are really just trying to find paths that sheep have made over the years
My running companion has told me heāll be slow tomorrow. Must be injured. Heāll still be faster than me.
Heās doing Ramadan. Heās not Muslim but started doing it a few years back as he has Muslim friends and wanted to see what it would be like to test the body out. 
Ya but what did he give up for lent
