There is No Map in Hell: The Record-Breaking Run Across the Lake District Fells - Softcover

Steve Birkinshaw

Softcover

ISBN 10: 191024094X ISBN 13: 9781910240946

Publisher: Vertebrate Publishing, 2017

Synopsis

In 2014, Steve Birkinshaw attempted to set a new record for completing a continuous 300-mile circuit of all 214 Wainwright fells in the Lake District. With a foreword by Joss Naylor, There is no Map in Hell recounts Birkinshaw's preparation, training and experience, and the physiological aftermath of the feat.

About this title

About the Author

Steve Birkinshaw is a legend within the fell running and ultrarunning communities, both for the extreme distances he can run in the roughest terrain and his ability to push himself to the absolute limit. Born in 1968, he began orienteering by himself at the age of seven. Since then his enthusiasm for running has never diminished, and over forty years later he is still happiest running with a map and compass through bogs and rocks in the wind and rain. He was won many fell races, adventure races and orienteering events, including over twenty wins in the elite class at mountain marathons and victories at the Lakeland 100 and the Dragon's Back Race - the legendary five-day, 300-kilometre run along the mountainous spine of Wales. Steve works for Newcastle University as a hydrologist and has been married to Emma Moody for the past twenty years. They have three children and live near Keswick in the Lake District.

Edition details

• Publisher: Vertebrate Publishing
• Publication date: 2017
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 191024094X
• ISBN 13: 9781910240946
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 224