Rob on running

You might, or might not, have noticed that I haven’t blogged here for a long while. I know at least two people that read this stuff and apparently enjoy it (shout out to Will Warren and Jon Kawaja).  There is a reason for this radio silence and it relates, in part, to the Lakeland 100 which I ran this past weekend. First, a quick recap: Lakeland is essentially like a British UTMB - 105 miles, a bit less climbing (but still plenty!), and helpfully for me at lower altitude.  It is a lap of the glorious English Lake District starting and finishing in Coniston, via Wasdale, Buttermere, Keswick, Pooley Bridge, Kentmere and Ambleside. Given the love I have for the lakes it’d been on my mind for while and training had gone pretty well, although I wasn’t very well the last few weeks before the race and so not ideally prepared.  I shouldn’t have worried though, the plan worked pretty well.  I worked my way up from about 70th at checkpoint 1 to 13th overall at the finish which is by f