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I did it last June, it took me and three mates about 20 hours (From leaving home to top of last peak)

If you search 'Three Peaks Challenge' on Google, you'll find a website made by a guy who did it a few years ago, there's some good tips on there.

Take some Deep heat with you and massage it into your legs after each peak, stinks the car out a treat though.

I'll have a think about it some more and post anything else i think of.

Would love to do the UK three Peaks, sounds ace.

Another challenge is http://www.3-peaks.co.uk/ the three peaks of North yorks. Its around a 26 mile Tab.

Rob

I did the 3 Peaks a few years back.

Didn't find it very hard - the hardest bit was slowing down so that the rest of my group could catch up

When I got to the top of the Ben I sat down for a bit to take in the view (wonderful - I could see at least 5 metres). A few guys from my team started coming in, so we had a bit of a chat then started making our way down again. After a few minutes going down I passed another one of our guys who was still on his way up (he's now in 45 Cdo), simply said "the top's up there Luke" and carried on.

It was a good laugh and there was a sense of achievement when it was over, but not as much as I had expected.

A few tips though (if you haven't already thought of them).

1. Get yourself a designated driver. We didn't and the guys who were driving got very tired thus slowing our progress.
2. Take some proper food with you. I'd suggest maybe filling up a Norwegian flask with some hot food like stew or something and eating this. We lived off pies and pasties from service stations - our minibus soon became a biological health hazard!
3. Travel light. Don't take too much kit with you. However, make sure you have the 7 essentials, as if the effluent does hit the proverbial you need to be able to administer yourself. 7 essentials = map & compass, hat & gloves, bivi bag, emergency rations, waterproof, whistle & a torch. A first aid kit and a hot flask wouldn't go amiss either.

Anyway good luck mate.

My Local TA unit does it every so often and when they do they invite around 6 or so of us cadets with them.

I missed out last time, hoping to go this summer with them though

RobT, I've done the 3 Peaks of Yorkshire a few times with me Dad, if we're talking about the same thing...Pen-Y-Ghent, Wernside and Ingleborough if I remember correctly...24 miles, done it in 7hr30, though father was a little slow on parts...he's put on a little weight since his cross-country days!! Nice route though, and good training, though I only get to do it every now and then, as I'm 200 miles away from him!!

Did it it June 2001 at the height of the FMD problem, just after I joined the TA, great opportunity to train with weight and break in boots.

I did it with a school group ranging from 17 year-old Sixth Formers to middle aged teachers and most people were slow (the 17 year olds ) so we did it in over 30 hours.

Doesn't matter if we were slow, it was one of the best experiences of my life, and I've loved hillwalking and tabbing for its own sake ever since.

Better to find like-minded people in your unit or on the forum and you can concentrate on fitness and times.

d2, it really is a great walk, if you get the chance to do it fast, go for it. I've never done it with weight, just a coupla litres of water and lunch, plus there's a pub at the end of it and an ice-cream van half way round!! Britain does have it's upsides!!