{"id":3412,"date":"2011-03-26T21:56:44","date_gmt":"2011-03-26T21:56:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/?p=3412"},"modified":"2025-07-21T13:04:32","modified_gmt":"2025-07-21T12:04:32","slug":"mountain-marathon-training","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/mountain-marathon-training.html","title":{"rendered":"Mountain marathon training"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Been out running with Jon today after he suggested some training together for the Highlander Mountain Marathon in three weeks time, so headed for a round of four &#8216;new&#8217; hills (including Corbetts Geal Charn and Meall na h-Eilde) north of the &#8216;Dark Mile&#8217; at the east end of Loch Arkaig.<!--more--> And this gave us a satisfying day out, with about 15.2 miles and 4,400 ft of ascent on runnable terrain with some interestingly varied contours (why we chose it!) completed at a respectable but reasonably comfortable pace. Some snow patches to cross, but nothing left requiring spikes\/crampons or axes, which all got left in the van when we saw what it was like.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011-03-26map.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-3413\" title=\"2011-03-26map\" src=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011-03-26map-225x300.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011-03-26map-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011-03-26map.jpg 600w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Been out running with Jon today after he suggested some training together for the Highlander Mountain Marathon in three weeks time, so headed for a round of four &#8216;new&#8217; hills (including Corbetts Geal Charn and Meall na h-Eilde) north of the &#8216;Dark Mile&#8217; at the east end of Loch Arkaig.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3412","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-running"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3412","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3412"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3412\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11852,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3412\/revisions\/11852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3412"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3412"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.petestack.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3412"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}