I’m not quite sure how the idea came about. But if I had to guess, I would say it was an ill-considered remark of mine about the coincidence that the Pennine Way starts near our house and finishes near Jasmin’s parents. One thing led to another and at some point Jasmin announced that she would like to run the Pennine Way for her birthday. I misunderstood and confirmed that I thought taking the TransPennine Express to her parents for her birthday would be a good idea.
Now, planning a 270 odd miles run in Britain during November is no easy task, so I decided to largely avoid any planning. Hence no accommodation was booked — the logic being that no one would be doing the Pennine Way in November, leaving us with lots of options — and the general plan centred on covering some 40-45 miles per day, which I somehow concluded would be easily achievable in the available 10 hours of daylight without breaking a sweat — how I got to that conclusion is a bit of a mystery, in particular if one considers that the comparable 42 miles of the High Peak Marathon take us about 9h and that’s without any tea stops. And thus with planning successfully avoided we were ready to go…
…and to read the whole of Konrad & Jasmin’s story you’ll have to wait for the next edition of the Carnethy Journal!
In the meantime see more photos here