LAMMing season...
One of the UK’s best mountain marathons takes place in Scottish this weekend. The Lowe Alpine Mountain Marathon is ready for action and with the location details announced as 4hrs north of Glasgow and 1½hrs from Inverness – Inverlael precisely!
All smiles at LAMM 2009
Injury and moving to France keeps 2009 and 2010 winner Andy Symonds away, but there are still some some classy looking pairings in the Elite entry list, with the likes of Stephen Pyke and Tom Laney taking on top Scottish hill running pairing Dan Gay and Al Anthony.
Joe and Andy Symonds, 2010 winners
It should be a great weekend, and speaking about the route, course planner Andy Spenceley says:
I can’t say too much about the area as it’s amazing how knowledgeable some of you are about the Scottish hills and even saying how many munros there are on the map would give it away to many off you. But you can be assured that there are munros and other hills and many of you will have an opportunity to tick off a summit (or two!). Terrain varies a lot over the area.
There are the usual more boggy areas, which unfortunately are slower at the moment with the recent rain, but a lot of the area is comparatively fast running, particularly high up on the hills. The centre of the area has quite a few crags to beware off, though courses do avoid them as much as possible. There are a few stalkers paths and estate tracks which may or may not be useful.
