The parks & routes

So I’ve decided to have a bit of a triple header in terms of home adventure. I’m running 15 marathons in 15 days in all 15 UK national parks. I’m working with the parks & the woodland trust to promote the biodiversity & vital ecosystems they provide for us all to enjoy. I’m also planting a bunch of trees along the way just to really make my legs hate me…

Each park is unique & I’m lucky enough to have visited all of them, they truly are remarkable & give an insight into how the land has shaped us as a civilisation. I don’t expect everyone wants to run one marathon in them let alone on in all of them!.. But we are the outdoors & I can’t help but think we take our open spaces for granted, before you know it you’ll have put off going to see them and it’ll be too late. It’s like all these things; I don’t want to regret not doing the things I always wanted to do no matter how hideous the idea.

I will update my Strava routes here & I’ll be using these awesome Splashmaps to help me navigate. I’ve got no grand ideas of super speed sub 4 hour runs but I do want to challenge myself everyday so i’ll take each run as it comes & hope that I cross the finish by foot, knee or pulling myself along with a dramatically lolling tongue slugging around on the trails!