The ever-popular West Highland Way is leading the rankings, followed by the Cape Wrath Trail, the John Muir Way, the Scottish National Trail, Great Glen Way and the Skye Trail.

I've just looked up the Cocodona race and found out that it's a 250 mile race! That is a massive challenge you've taken on!

Yes 6hr per checkpoint. Be really harsh otherwise!

Oh no!

These amazing people were so welcome to see at the end of the race! Thank you to them all.

destination”. I keep running, then someone shouts "you can stop now". There are 4 steps, my wife is inside the building & I have done it, in 47hrs and 9 minutes.

Of 174 starters, I have been lucky, as 78 have dropped out, leaving me 42nd to finish.
The scary thing is that I enjoyed most of that.

Just over 1km on this road, I put a spurt on here at the end, but have to squeeze through some wall gaps to follow the PW & then through a housing estate to get to the finish. I follow some yellow arrows & turn left, dodging the early morning foot traffic. My GPS beeps to say “You have reached your

No stupid mistakes now. I see another Spine Racer on the other side of the wall, fiddling with something - maybe having a toilet break. I mustn’t let them overtake me at the end. But when I get to the road they have vanished, they are not up the road ahead of me. I seem to have made them up.

I stumble a couple of times and tell myself to slow down and not turn my ankle so close to the finish. Don’t allow yourself to think about the finish until 5km to go. Another left turn to Gaudy Lane, a boggy wet path but thankfully downhill. Now out of the wind, I feel too warm & remove gloves,

A welcome sight ahead of a 4WD, marshalls give me some water & direct me down the path to Hawes. I have my last energy bar here, & head down a muddy slushy snowy path. The sun will be coming up soon, my second new morning since setting out from Hebden. The wind is strengthening & blowing across me.

There is a strong Northerly wind which helps to push me up that path. After a while the surface becomes tarmacked but still angled. I start to get bored of the smooth surface & tedium. My mind tricks are almost done.

My phone pings - “100 MILES DONE!” from my wife. Don't give up now!

in a cold river when the correct path is the other side of a wall a couple of times. Once I reach Cam High Road, the navigation is easy & the terrain smooth on the whole. The Cam High Road just seems to go on uphill forever in my torchlight. I’m waiting for the level road & even a downhill but no.

Fools Gold sets a good pace for the uphill, interrupted every few minutes by the need to navigate carefully over sheet ice spread over the path from edge to edge. I’m using my GPS unit now to try and avoid any frustrating nav errors, despite this I still manage to find myself standing

another Spiner & have an impromptu picnic at the table outside. Before tackling the last 14 miles to Hawes, I have some caffeine & Tailwind. I think there are 5 hours of this journey left. We all set off together but soon find our own pace & I am climbing out of Horton. I put on my Spine Playlist-

of a stream. I do not wish to fall into the river below. Soon I am caught by another Spiner. We descend to the road together & navigate the PYG diversion as a team. I'm now confident I will complete the race but am debating whether another nap in Horton might be helpful. At the toilets we find