This was a family adventure including Mum (Rachael), Dad (Andrew), Sophie (age 11) and George (age 8). This was a self-supported challenge. While we do love the mountains, with busy lives we only manage to go walking a few times a year. We'd had the 3 Peaks Challenge in mind for a couple of years and went for it at short notice due to the fantastic weather forecast. Therefore we hadn't time to do specific training to build up to this challenge - we are grateful that Sophie & George had sufficient fitness to storm up each mountain (completing the 3 peaks in a strong cumlative time of 12 hours and 6 minutes) thanks to doing so much gymnastics training (16 - 19 hours a week each). No stranger to ultra running, Andrew set himself the rather outrageous challenge of starting this 3 Peaks adventure only 5.5 hours after having raced the Edinburgh Marathon in 2:36:56, coming 13th overall (out of around 16 000 runners)! Rachael is a keen runner and has also done the Lakeland 50 and an Iron distance triathlon in recent years.
23 hours and 35 minutes
The National Three Peaks Challenge takes in the highest mountains in Scotland, England and Wales, often in 24 hours.