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Spine Race
The Spine Race is a winter ultramarathon held over a distance of around from Edale, England, to Kirk Yetholm, Scotland, along the Pennine Way. Participants are allowed seven days to complete the course. The race has been held annually since 2012. The Spine Fusion is a summer race run over the same route, introduced in 2017. The Spine Challenger and Spine Flare are shorter winter and summer races over the first of the Spine Race route, to be completed in 60 hours. History The event was devised by Arctic expedition guides Scott Gilmour and Phil Hayday-Brown. The inaugural race took place in 2012 when there were only three finishers from a small field of eleven competitors. The 2013 event was promoted as the Dare 2b Spine Race but later that year it was announced that Montane would take on sponsorship of the event. In the 2014 and later editions, participants carried GPS trackers for safety reasons and so that the progress of the race could be publicly followed online as it took ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Ultramarathon
An ultramarathon, also called ultra distance or ultra running, is any footrace longer than the traditional marathon length of . Various distances are raced competitively, from the shortest common ultramarathon of to over . 50k and 100k are both World Athletics record distances, but some races are among the oldest and most prestigious events, especially in North America. Around 100 miles is typically the longest course distance raced in under 24 hours but there are also longer multi-day races of or more, sometimes raced in stages with breaks for sleep. While some ultras are road races, many take place on trails, leading to a large overlap with the sports of trail running and mountain running. Overview There are two main types of ultramarathon events: those that cover a specified distance or route, and those that last for a predetermined period of time (with the winner covering the most distance in that time). The most common distances are , , , and , although many races have ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Malham
Malham is a village and civil parish in the Craven district of North Yorkshire, England. Before 20th century boundary changes, the village was part of the Settle Rural District, in the historic West Riding of Yorkshire. In the ''Domesday Book'', the name is given as Malgun, meaning "settlement by the gravelly places". In 2001 the parish had a population of approximately 150. Malham parish increased in size geographically (to include Malham Moor) and so at the 2011 Census had a population of 238. Malham lies at the upper end of the valley of the River Aire, known above Airton as Malhamdale, in the Yorkshire Dales. The surrounding countryside is well known for its limestone pavements and other examples of limestone scenery. Tourist attractions include Malham Tarn, Malham Cove, Gordale Scar, Janet's Foss and the Dry Valley. In the 1950s the village gave its name to a Ham class minesweeper, HMS Malham. Governance Malham has a joint parish council, Kirkby Malhamdale Parish Counci ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anna Troup
Anna Troup (born 1970) is a British ultramarathon runner who, in 2021, achieved the fastest known time for a female completion of the Pennine Way. She is a qualified lawyer and works in financial management. Early life, education, and rowing Troup has an MA in PPE from the University of Oxford and is a qualified lawyer, having trained at Slaughter and May. While at Oxford she rowed as stroke in the winning boat in the 1991 Women's Boat Race. She has been chair of the Oxford University Women's Boat Club and a member of the board of The Boat Race Company, which runs The Boat Race, and is on the board of the Leander Club. Running career On 17 August 2021, Troup completed the Pennine Way in 72 h 46 min, breaking the fastest known time previously held by Sabrina Verjee who had completed in 74 h 28 min 19 s in 2020. Troup is the female record holder of the Summer Spine Race along the route of the Pennine Way, having completed the 2021 race in a time of 80 h 28 min 35 s. In the 2022 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Mountain Rescue
Mountain rescue refers to search and rescue activities that occur in a mountainous environment, although the term is sometimes also used to apply to search and rescue in other wilderness environments. This tends to include mountains with technical rope access issues, snow, avalanches, ice, crevasses, glaciers, alpine environments and high altitudes. The difficult and remote nature of the terrain in which mountain rescue often occurs has resulted in the development of a number of specific pieces of equipment and techniques. Helicopters are often used to quickly extract casualties, and search dogs may be deployed to find a casualty. Mountain rescue services may be paid professionals or volunteer professionals. Paid rescue services are more likely to exist in places with a high demand such as the Alps, national parks with mountain terrain and many ski resorts. However, the labor-intensive and occasional nature of mountain rescue, along with the specific techniques and local knowl ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hardraw
Hardraw is a hamlet near Hawes within the Yorkshire Dales in North Yorkshire, England. It takes its name from the nearby Hardraw Force waterfall. The old school house, built in 1875, can be seen in the centre of the photograph of the village, and the Pennine Way runs past the west side this building. The village centre lies further up the road, and access to Hardraw Force is via The Green Dragon pub. Hardraw Church, dedicated in honour of St Mary and St John, was rebuilt by the Earl of Wharncliffe between 1879 and 1881. It is Grade II listed. It doubles as Darrowby Darrowby is a fictional village in the North Riding of Yorkshire, England, which was created by author Alf Wight under the pen name of James Herriot James Alfred Wight (3 October 1916 – 23 February 1995), better known by his pen name J ... Church in the British television series '' All Creatures Great and Small''. References External linksVideo footage of the beck, gill and force Hamlets in ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
COVID-19 Pandemic
The COVID-19 pandemic, also known as the coronavirus pandemic, is an ongoing global pandemic of coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) caused by severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2). The novel virus was first identified in an outbreak in the Chinese city of Wuhan in December 2019. Attempts to contain it there failed, allowing the virus to spread to other areas of Asia and later worldwide. The World Health Organization (WHO) declared the outbreak a public health emergency of international concern on 30 January 2020, and a pandemic on 11 March 2020. As of , the pandemic had caused more than cases and confirmed deaths, making it one of the deadliest in history. COVID-19 symptoms range from undetectable to deadly, but most commonly include fever, dry cough, and fatigue. Severe illness is more likely in elderly patients and those with certain underlying medical conditions. COVID-19 transmits when people breathe in air contaminated by droplets and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Sabrina Verjee
Sabrina Verjee (born ) is a British long-distance fell-runner who held the overall record for the 325 mile circuit of the Wainwrights from June 2021 to May 2022 and the female record for the Pennine Way from September 2020 to August 2021. Early life and education Verjee grew up in Surrey and studied human sciences at Oxford University. After a few months working as an investment banker she studied veterinary medicine at Cambridge, with a postgraduate certificate in emergency medicine and surgery. At both universities she ran and rowed, and at Cambridge she took up modern pentathlon and then adventure racing. Running Verjee competed in, and won, her first ultramarathon, the Grand Tour of Skiddaw, in 2014. In 2017 she competed in the Ultra-Trail du Mont-Blanc, finishing in 21st place, but did not enjoy the experience: "You climb to the top of the hill and all you can hear is these banging cowbells and shouting people, but it's so foreign to me because I actually go to the hills ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
John Kelly (runner)
John Wade Kelly (born November 19, 1984) is an American endurance athlete who specializes in ultrarunning. Early life Kelly was raised in Morgan County, Tennessee. He was a good but not outstanding runner in high school, after which he did not compete in the sport for several years until 2013, when he ran the Marine Corps Marathon. After subsequently qualifying for the Boston Marathon, he decided to use ultramarathons and triathlons to maintain his fitness and motivation. American ultras and triathlons In 2017, Kelly became the fifteenth finisher in the history of the Barkley Marathons. He completed the required five loops in a total time of 59:30, around half an hour inside the time limit for the full course. It was his third attempt at the race, having managed three loops in 2015 and four in 2016. Later in 2017, Kelly won the Road Runners Club of America National Ultra Championship at the Lookout Mountain 50 Miler. The next year, he set a course record of 23:48 at the Wild Oak Tr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Carol Morgan
Carol Morgan is an Irish ultrarunner, who specialises in non-stop mountain ultramarathons 100 km and longer, often in challenging conditions with significant ascents / descents. Born in Dublin in 1973, where she trained as a nurse, she is an advanced practitioner in emergency medicine. Morgan holds the course record for endurance ultra event, the Kerry Way Ultra. Early running years Morgan started running in her thirties. and has been running with Nidd Valley Running Club in Harrogate, Yorkshire, with whom she still regularly competes, since at least 2010, gradually adding longer and longer distances to her repertoire. Competing in road races 2007 - 2012 saw Morgan compete in the Connemarathon road race in Ireland in April. In 2007 she placed tenth in the marathon while incorrectly listed as from the United Kingdom. From 2009 - 2012 she placed either first or second in the Connemarathon ultramarathon in conditions that varied from unseasonally hot sunshine to pelting ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Eoin Keith
Eoin Keith is an Irish ultramarathon runner who won the Spine Race, a winter run along the Pennine Way, in 2016, 2019 and 2022. His 2022 time for the race was 92:40:30 (3 days, 20 hr, 40.5 mins). Other achievements include winning a 170 km race in Oman Oman ( ; ar, عُمَان ' ), officially the Sultanate of Oman ( ar, سلْطنةُ عُمان ), is an Arabian country located in southwestern Asia. It is situated on the southeastern coast of the Arabian Peninsula, and spans the mouth of ... in 2019. References External linksProfileat UTMB website Year of birth missing (living people) Living people Irish ultramarathon runners Athletes from County Cork {{longdistance-athletics-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Cheviot Hills
The Cheviot Hills (), or sometimes The Cheviots, are a range of uplands straddling the Anglo-Scottish border between Northumberland and the Scottish Borders. The English section is within the Northumberland National Park. The range includes The Cheviot (the highest hill), plus Hedgehope Hill to the east, Windy Gyle to the west, and Cushat Law and Bloodybush Edge to the south. The hills are sometimes considered a part of the Southern Uplands of Scotland as they adjoin the uplands to the north. Since the Pennine Way runs through the region, the hills are also considered a part of the northern Pennines although they are separated from the Cheviot Hills by the Tyne Gap, part of which lies within the southern extent of the Northumberland National Park. The Cheviot Hills are primarily associated with geological activity from approximately 480 to 360 million years ago, when the continents of Avalonia and Laurentia collided, resulting in extensive volcanic activity (the Caledonian o ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Greenhead, Northumberland
Greenhead is a village in Northumberland, England.United Kingdom Ordnance Survey Map, Landranger NY, 2004 The village is on the Military Road (B6318), about from Chollerford, from Haltwhistle and from Brampton, Cumbria along the A69 road. The A69 bypasses the village, but until the 1980s all vehicular traffic passed through it. The village lies just outside the Northumberland National Park, close to Hadrian's Wall. Just to the north of the village is the 12th-century Thirlwall Castle, recently restored and opened to the public. Nearby villages include Upper Denton and Haltwhistle. A former Methodist chapel in the village is now a youth hostel. The Pennine Way, the UK's first National Trail, passes through Greenhead. Governance Greenhead is in the parliamentary constituency of Hexham. The local authority is Northumberland County Council, a unitary authority. Landmarks Thirlwall Castle () is a 12th-century castle on the bank of the Tipalt Burn close to the vil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
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