Deciding to do the ultra-competitive Fire Service Three Peaks Mountain Challenge, more commonly known as the Three Peaks Challenge, in 2006 was massively upping the ante for us. We hadn’t done a huge amount of hill training at that point and we hadn’t really tested ourselves in the logistics or planning stakes.
However, in the first of three years of competing the team has got better and better. In 2006, Lee and Garry raised an impressive £2,400 for The Firefighters Charity and in the third year with a new team, we were sixth overall from 140 teams, won first mixed team and Jo Turnbull, our female team mate, won First Female on the Hill.
Event Details
Date: June 2006, 2007, 2008
Location: Ben Nevis, Scafell Pike, Mount Snowdon
Disciplines: Hill running
Distance: approx 26 miles, 4,000 metre height gain
Time: 17 hours 05 minutes
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Highlights
- Taking part in this ultra-competitive Fire Service event. There were some very elite teams.
- Big Al, six feet of shaven-headed Glasgow copper, high fiving a team of Scouts on our way down Ben Nevis in 2006.
- Winning first mixed team in 2008 despite Jo, our female runner, falling badly on Ben Nevis and cutting her knee and then falling off a boulder on Scafell Pike and cutting her elbow and hand badly. The hospital could wait; we had a race to run.