Action Berner

Early doors saw yours truly on the Big Black Mountain Challenge part deux.

Conditions were set to be perfect, which was a relief after the nightmare rainfall of the previous week.

This was a staff meeting dressed up as a lets do 50km in as fast as possible time 

across the majority of the Black Mountains

with the apprentice Action Berner, Ivy, who until this point had only done Snowdon and a walk of 12 miles.

She was brilliant, we kept an average pace of 3mph, we got slower to the end but never dropped below the magic number 3.

Even with a lunch stop we were ahead of schedule.

Ivy took this as an opportunity to catch a brief z. 

The humans of the team were faring well, Richard was troubled by his knees

but stopping just made it worse.

Lots of drinks on the way

and a slight error in route navigation meant the last big mountain was bypassed to save time if not distance 

but that gave us a chance to see the Dam and Bothy hidden in the valley.

11 hours after we started and with the sun setting on a great mountain day 

we reached the end, 51km in 10 hours 9 minutes moving time or just under 11 hours total. 

Ivy was a happy doggo eager for the ride home 

where se took her rightful place on the sofa.