Shameless self promotion on Ben Nevis
I’ve been meaning to run up Ben Nevis to see how fast I could do it since Jen ran up it two years ago, so I took the opportunity to combine it with a bit of hostel advertising. We considered an old fashioned sandwich board but thought they might be too cumbersome so settled for official Invergarry Lodge running vests.
It was a glorious day on the Ben, the hundreds of people heading up where rewarded with great views from the top . Lots of walkers meant there was lots of people to see our advertising and lots of people to spur me on.
I reached the top in 1 hour and 42 minutes feeling pretty good, I posed for a quick snap and took a quick snap of another group while trying swallowing a mars bar in one go and I was off again. Was great fun running down as fast as I could until about 20 minutes from the bottom my feet started burning - I could feel the blisters getting bigger and bigger with every step.
I made it back to the bridge at the bottom in 2 hours and 31 minutes. I think Team Invergarry Lodge can get a better official hostel time but for now I think I did the Team running vests proud.
–Matt
PS. My feet are in tatters, anyone know how to have a shower without getting the bottom of your feet wet?
9:50 pm on August 8th, 2010
IMPRESSIVE!!!!! Well done… but no mention of Jenny’s time, did you come close?? LOL!! Will have to try and beat it…..!!! Goh lots of folks up there eh??!!