fellrunningdad

Tryfan and Llyn Ogwen from the descent to Bryn Poeth Let's start at the beginning - How did I get into fell running? I started off by running during lunchtime at work. I then found if I ran whilst I was dog walking on the hill near to home, I could get above the tree line in the hour I had. This meant I could see the views! I then realised that this was actually really positive for my mental health and so I started running more often. I was recommended a fell race and a fell running club by a work colleague, so I headed to the race with the aim being to not disgrace myself so that I could join the club (it turns out that there are no real entry requirements, but it helps to be able to run well enough up hills to join in the weekly social runs now and again). I had never run on the road before or anything like that since the annual school cross country when I was a kid. My first fell races were the local Coity mountain and Llanthony show fell races, both in the summer of 2016. I als...