Joss Naylor Lakeland Challenge

  It was only thanks to my training group that I survived the six months of preparation. But the Joss Naylor Challenge more than repaid tho...

  It was good to have a resting week, leading up to the big day, but I got so rested that, by Saturday, I was also getting nervous, thinkin...

  When I was 52 (14 th June 1996) I went for the challenge which had to be completed in 14 hours. It all seemed quite feasible having done...

  I had my first attempt at this run back in 2009 when I was a spritely 50 year-old. Unfortunately I wasn’t really that spritely; it was at ...

  May 2011 a cold sad figure is helped up off the floor at Greendale after failing on the Challenge. A runners rather than mountaineers dec...

I decided to go for it on Saturday June 21st to maximise daylight and after my final recce decided to go for a 21-hour schedule.    ...

Don Talbot was the first to take up the challenge although this wasn't his intention. When Joss announced the details Don was a couple o...