The Great Outdoors

ASLEEP ON THE JOB

HE FINISHING PLACE for the Bob Graham fell running round is Moot Hall in Keswick. I remember seeing the town centre packed to welcome in the likes of Killian Jornet and Steve Birkinshaw, when they raced the clock down to set their records. My own round also finished at Moot Hall, and the similarities ended there too. I wasn’t racing the clock. It took me 214 nights to sleep on

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