Day 5: Connon bridge to Drumnadrochit and Loch Ness

It’s a horrible thing to lay all night in agony acutely awake listening to the voices in the dark corners of my mind taunting me in other painful ways. I’m screaming in fury at my luck.. cursing the gods.. the realisation.. I’m finished.. all the...

Day 4: Tain to Connon Bridge : My fears worsen.

Day 4:Turns out to be a long and arduous day full of pain and worry…. woke up with a very very swollen and obviously more damaged foot than previously hoped for and suspected.. I try my best to stamp any negative doubts and worrys to the deepest darkest parts of...

Day 3: Helmsdale to Tain: Hitting the first wall

After injuring a tendon in my right ankle going downhill on the second day I knew this one would be tough, thankfully the weather seemed to have cleared up so I threw on my QEHB top and started off. I saw some old ruins along the way… it felt like looking in a...

Day 2: Lybster to Helmsdale via fog

After resting up for the night I packed Bessie(the barrel) and donned some jogging flares: The fog closed in, I hoped it would clear before I reached the hills and mountains later on the day’s route.   The long uphill stretches that characterise the roads...