North Downs Way

and very technical.

So Glyndwr's Way in Wales, the North Downs Way, which is, you know, very well known hills.

in the south and the Thames path itself and for a number of years I believe he was the FKT holder on the south west coast path which is obviously absolutely massive run through Devon and Cornwall and then that might have been taken by Dan Lawson which is a pretty awesome company to be rubbing shoulders with on the FKT website so Yeah, he is, you know, clearly an outstanding runner.

And one of those is ones who's decided to come into Backyard from a different branch of ultra running and, you know, yet to show us what his limit could be.

Friends of Centurion, Andrew Churchill runs so often with us.

Will Raybold, both Andrew and Will were at North Downs Way 100 actually.

Tom Sheffield, who's also regularly with us.

Chloe Sangster, Ivor Hewitt, who does so much of our course marking, looks to have had a good one and just shy of the 200k mark.

Um, special shout out to Hugh Tibbs, who has got so much better.

Obviously Hugh, uh, autumn hundred and British hundred mile trail record holder, uh, from last October, around 1303.

Um, North Downs Way 50 course record holder, Race of the Stones course record holder.

He turned onto the road and track to gain national vests this year.

Okay.

So it's the North Downs Way 100.

So it was Farnham, uh, in Surrey to Ashford-

Right

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in Kent, along the North Downs Way.

I know.

Yeah, yeah.

And follow that through the lumpy, bumpy north-eastern part of Hampshire through Alton and Farnham.

And then in Farnham, you join the North Downs Way and you take the first part of the North Downs Way to Box Hill.

I have actually done a significant part of that route before in one or the other direction.

In fact, I don't think there will be any new trail for me.

But once you turn off the South Downs Way, you're running over fields.

A lot of it is field.

And then the North Downs Way can get muddy.

So probably two thirds of the race are likely to be quite sticky.

It's based on walking...

I live near Canterbury, and so in 1971 I walked from Winchester to Canterbury on the Pilgrim's Way, which then became more or less lost inside the North Downs Way.

And I should just point out for listeners who don't know that that must be about 120 miles, something like that, 100 miles?

It's more than 100 miles, yeah.

And then, so from the ARC, we did some research, Leroy, and to correct us if we're wrong, and sometimes we do make mistakes, and that's okay, but talk to me about FKTs.

Yes, I've done the FKT, the North Downs Way.

So basically, it wasn't supposed to be an FKT.

Yes.

That's right, it was, yes.

Yeah, and 153 miles.

So it's not the North Downs Way as we know it, perhaps for Centurion.

And yeah, 53 hours and 19 minutes.