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Well now the dust has settled, the clarity of our injuries are becoming more real. Brunt is already seeing a specialist and I've been told my running days might not be as long as I'd hoped. Fingers crossed they can get us patched up for next year. We'll be announcing fully next years event when we know if I need an opt and the recovery times. Brunt is still fund raising like crazy and we'll keep

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Well, well, don't injuries take ages to heal?Bryn is still feeling the pain in his legs and I'm on the X-ray route at the moment with waiting to find out if surgery is needed.Thankfully I think we are thinking of Cycling next year, I think our poor knee joints might be thankful we are!We are now totaling up the final funds for the event and completing some more fundraising days and selling off

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As the donations keep rolling in, we are a'blush with respect for all the people who kept emailing, twittering and facebooking us as we covered the the many roads of the UK.It's sinking in now, not only all the pain but what we did and the money we are still raising.We still have much to tie up and we'll be posting updates right up until the 11th September cut off for donations.-darren

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It was hard, much harder than we thought. 10 huge peaks in 5 days was a task and a half, just completing Ben Nevis and Ben MacDui in the first day was epic. We've received the greatest words of support from people who have walked some of our routes themselves. They've understood the enormity of getting up them quickly as we tried. We are not ultra athletes, just two normal guys that pushed

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Pen Y FanBryn PoseyOur final peak yahoooooooooooooooooooooooDarren had worked so hard on all our routes his distances where spot on his timings we managed to beat, all apart from Scarfell Pike, and us getting lost didn’t help.Our last peak we had ran quite recently and so Darrens route card was not quite as polished as it could have been well. It was meant to be approximately a two hour run with

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35 mins ago we finished our mini adventure, 29 hrs to complete 122 km. I've been up some mountains and out in bad weather but not for 5 days and not when the MET office issue two bad weather warnings. The last run in from Pen Y Fan is a 1 km run to the top car park, the tarmac felt like sponge or jelly. It was an epic week and I'll pour more out when I get back about the trip and all the good and

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Ok, I 'think' I 'might' have made a mistake by putting the following on our truck "2 guys, 5 days, 10 peaks, over 16,000 mtrs of ascent & descent, 120+ Km on foot - England, Wales and Scotland...I bet it rains!" - right what I think I really meant to say at the end was, "...I bet it shines with glorious sun and we'll see wonderful panoramic views of rolling countryside."Just been up and down

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We are all up, packed, kit ready and on the road again.YES! as always, it's raining as we wind our way towards Idris. Tim and myself had a better night sleep than Bryn, who has now found out that he's not ideally suited to sleep by a stream, looks a little punch drunk this morning but seems ready to go.- darren

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Just a quick update. We got up and back off Snowdon with a 14.5 km route, taking 3 hrs 9 mins. Not the fastest time we could have done. The path was really bad in places and stopped any real speed over ground. Bryn's poor legs were burning up and energy low. It's been a long few days and we'll be starting again at 6 am and heading off for our next mountains.It was heaven after a cold and rainy

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SnowdonBryn PoseyWoah!! As we drove towards Snowdon it rose in front of us higher and higher. Oh and surprise surprise the top of it was surrounded in mist. The whole of Wales, the Lake District and Scotland had been given a severe weather warning. Joy of joy, pound to a penny it was going to rain, or be very windy at the least.The trail meandered towards Snowdon with the steam trains

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All week this is the one peak that I have been nervous about. We where not doing the usual approach from the south, we where doing the east to west approach the longest route we had planned. As we set off the weather was playing us as it has all week, light rain moments of brightness hinting that it may even sunshine. Then the clouds close in and you guessed it it started raining yet again. The

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I'm not one to preach, but ALL our beneficiary charities do a fantastic job in their respective fields of support. If you can give a few pounds to keep pushing our totals up and make this a worthy challenge event, please do. Hit donate and keep pushing our fundraiser target ever higher.Thanks for all the support, keep it coming, you don't know how much it's keeping us going...-darren

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With tight times, we normally get anywhere between 4 and 7 hrs sleep a night in the last 5 days of traveling. But being the theme park, sorry campsite we were in last night, it was a LOT less!Anyway back to the peaks. This morning we hot footed it up the Old Man of Coniston, once again in the driving rain. It felt colder today, but I think our bodies are still recovering from the day before, up

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Well not 'JUST' yet. Ben Macdui - DONE!, Ben Nevis, Ben [I'll rain on you all the way around] Lomond - DONE!, Skiddaw, Helvellyn, Scarfell [lucky to be alive] Fell & Old Main of Coniston - all DONE! Seven down, three left. It's a heck of a journey, I've not only learned about what I've done, but what I am capable of doing. Stubborn is one of the first words in any sentence used to describe me,

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Old Man of ConistonBryn PoseyA rough night, A rough camp site although they did have ham sandwiches for a £1, which after 4 days of dried food was legend. The trail started up a nice track crossing streams bordered by ferns and wandering sheep. Then as always the clouds came in and the rocks reared themselves from the bed of the trail. All the way slate and rock made us side step and second guess

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Day three and the half way point what a feeling one more hill and we have passed that pschycological barrier and we are on our way home. Helvellyn started off by a lovelly stream crossed a pretty little wooden bridge and then another, then recrosses the stream. Then the path headed skywards, it felt like being on a stepper for an hour solid raise one leg then the other.This sole destroying

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Wow the last peak of day 2 as we go up some of the views are fantastic, then our friend the cloud closes in on us, blurring our view dulling our senses. The simple sound of the wind and the mist making it almosr seem like we where hiking in a dream.The Forest leading up to Skiddaw allowed as an amazing view of longside edge looming over us. Then the climb began I haven't climbed walked in many

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I can, as anyone who knows me would agree - be a bit of a risk taker. Today however a stubborn object [me] met and immovable force [Scarfell Pike]. The MET office has issues a weather waring for the Lake District area, we can at first had confirm that yes it is dangerous to be on Scarfell Pike in the fog, hard driving rain [one side of my face 3 hours later is still stinging], fading light and

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"Amazing"," wow look at that", "that's a massive peak", "get the camera quick", is all you could here from our truck on the journey between Ben MacDui and Ben Nevis was not only breathtaking but the scenery was simply stunning. It was at if it was being painted for us by the gods.All the films you see on TV of Canada and Alaska just looked like they were all filmed right here in Scotland. I just

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Ben NevisBrynWow three hours roughly after summiting Ben Macdui we where setting off up Ben Nevis. We had already climbed over Seven Hundred metres and had another Thirteen Hundred Metres or so of climb and descent oh and about another fourteen kilometres. You have to laugh because if you didn’t you would have to cry.The first Six Hundred metres of ascent contours you around Meall an t-Suidhe to

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Ben NevisBrynWow three hours roughly after summiting Ben Macdui we where setting off up Ben Nevis. We had already climbed over Seven Hundred meters and had another Thirteen Hundred Meters or so of climb and descent oh and about another fourteen kilometers. You have to laugh because if you didn’t you would have to cry.The first Six Hundred meters of ascent contours you around Meall an t-Suidhe to

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MacDuiAfter the efficient de-camp, though I must say a big thank you to the lady working on the reception desk at Dailraddy camp site who, on her day off very kindly got up an hour and half early to let us out the camp site. Not to try and sell the campsite but I was impressed with the cleanliness of the facilities and for the size of the complex there were enough not to que.As we winded up the

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Ben MacduiBrynAlong the way we have collected a number of pieces of important equipment from sponsors like our sleeping system Solo Tents, Sleeping bags and OMM Sleeping mats combined with Chocolate Fish Merino wool leggings and vest. An adequate system although the ground temperature last night meant I woke every few hours to turn to relieve the numbness in one side that was warm to allow me to

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Apart from a Bryn 'where's my wallet?' moment we left without a hitch. Well all the training, pain, sickness, bad days, good days and the respect I have for the amount of work that go in to charity events, we are now on the road.We can't do nothing now but relax, read routes and prep for a 5am tomorrow morning, when the first run/hike/crawl starts.-darren Stumble It!

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Updating the blog via an IPhone as we cruise along the highways heading north. Well 14 months of planning, 12 months of fund raising, 10 months of training, the 12 hours of travelling has arrived before the 5 days of running all begins. It seems quite strange this whole event has been based around some huge numbers the scary thing now is the huge numbers are the meters of ascent we are climbing

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