Damian Hall has broken the 30-year-old Wainwright's Coast to Coast record held by Mike Hartley since 1991. According to his Open Tracking, he ran the route in a time of 39 hours 16 minutes (TBC), and 33 seconds beating Hartley's time of 39 hours, 36 minutes, and 52 seconds.
"Alfred Wainwright created the Coast-to-Coast route in 1973 and has subsequently become one of the country's most popular long-distance trails."
Has he really?
I'd rather have waited a day or two for a less hurriedly written and more detailed report about this incredibly impressive run; congratulations to Damian!
Well done to both current and former record holders. It's a testament to both of them that their times are separated by just 20 minutes despite being 30 years apart. I'm not a runner so not knowledgeable about the C to C run history but have there been many attempts to better Mike Hartley's time over the decades? The PW and various other hill rounds seem to get attention more.
Lorraine McCall began her attempt today at a continuous, self-powered round of the Grahams, a four-month tour of upland Scotland combining walking and bikepacking. If successful, she'll be the first person that we know of to do it.