Beinn Dearg from Glen Tilt - an old runner's tale!
Route: Beinn Dearg from near Blair Atholl
Munros: Beinn Dearg (Blair Atholl)
Date walked: 24/07/2020
Time taken: 3.75 hours
Distance: 29.5km
Ascent: 990m
A beautiful July summer's morning to bag one of the more remote Munro's and keep my tally ticking along.
Though I actually claimed my first Munro over 30-years ago it's only in recent times that I decided to work slowly towards bagging all 282 summits.
So, I'll come clean, I am an over-60 runner, and have run many, many mountains, particularly in the Lake District, Wales and the Peak District over the years. The challenge I have recently set myself is to run all of the Munro's over the next 3-4 years, combining shorter classic walk routes, wherever possible, to make best use of my slightly faster traveling pace - I typically set myself the goal of achieving a given Walking Highland route in under half the guideline walking time! This does depend on terrain and weather and I'm not getting any younger!! I also don't rush along as I love to take in the solitude, the environment, take photographs and I am an avid nature lover so I'm always on the lookout for deer, hare, ptarmigan, eagle, colour changes with the seasons etc.
Make no mistake about it Beinn Dearg is a long haul from Glen Tilt car park - over 9-miles to the summit - mostly really good going underfoot though. I reached the summit in around 2hr 10min and, after a suitable elevenses stop and a few photos headed back down to complete the clockwise loop. A nice steady jog back to the car in just over 1hr 30min to complete a wonderfully tiring morning out!
Though I actually claimed my first Munro over 30-years ago it's only in recent times that I decided to work slowly towards bagging all 282 summits.
So, I'll come clean, I am an over-60 runner, and have run many, many mountains, particularly in the Lake District, Wales and the Peak District over the years. The challenge I have recently set myself is to run all of the Munro's over the next 3-4 years, combining shorter classic walk routes, wherever possible, to make best use of my slightly faster traveling pace - I typically set myself the goal of achieving a given Walking Highland route in under half the guideline walking time! This does depend on terrain and weather and I'm not getting any younger!! I also don't rush along as I love to take in the solitude, the environment, take photographs and I am an avid nature lover so I'm always on the lookout for deer, hare, ptarmigan, eagle, colour changes with the seasons etc.
Make no mistake about it Beinn Dearg is a long haul from Glen Tilt car park - over 9-miles to the summit - mostly really good going underfoot though. I reached the summit in around 2hr 10min and, after a suitable elevenses stop and a few photos headed back down to complete the clockwise loop. A nice steady jog back to the car in just over 1hr 30min to complete a wonderfully tiring morning out!
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Nigel Hetherington
- Location: Perthshire
- Occupation: Sports Education Consultant National Trainer, UK Anti-Doping
- Interests: Running, coaching, mountains, competing, escaping, solitude
- Mountain: Everest
- Place: Home then any summit
- Gear: Fell running shoes
- Member: BMC, FRA, Fife AC
- Ideal day out: A bespoke run taking in 3 or 4 summits. Leg-busting climbs, runnable ridges, technical descents
- Ambition: To summit Everest
- Munros: 53
- Corbetts: 6
- Donalds: 1
- Wainwrights: 97
- Hewitts: 112
- Sub 2000: 4
- Islands: 17
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- Trips: 1
- Distance: 29.5 km
- Ascent: 990m
- Munros: 1
- Joined: Sep 04, 2014
- Last visited: Feb 26, 2024
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