Fort William for the weekend, another go at the Ben race, lucky with the weather, strong gusts of wind eased on Saturday morning, a wee bit warm was the worst you could say. A lap round the games field and off up the road towards the tourist path, steady running until windy corner, slow to a walk as the gradient picks up, walked from here until the summit plateau where a slow jog resumed picking the pace up where possible. Turned at the top, gloves on for the descent, across the plateau and as the gradient increased cramp took over, took a couple of electrolyte tablets and it gradually eased, pattern repeated every 15 or so minutes meant a steadier than usual descent, reached the road a the end of the tourist path just over 2 hours 51, new I had to get a move on to break 3 hours, only 1 1/2 minutes left when I reached the games field, max effort to finish 4 seconds inside 3 hours. Sunday saw a run over Stob Ban and Mullach nan Coirean, lost my phone on the way up, luckily it was returned to me the next morning. On the way home on Monday, blus sky day meant I had to stop in Glencoe for a wee run over a munro I had still to do on Buchailletive Beag, Stob Coire Raineach.
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