0500 briefing and a start time of 0700 up the Ben, the going was good, up the tourist route, however hampered by the number of others in the race as well as the ususal numbers of people going up. We reached the summit in good time. By this time the weather had dramatically changed, having walked through snow and into the cloud, I soon lost the feeling in my fingers. So we didn't stick around.
The return journey saw us running down, in a time that set us in great position for the rest of the way - 4hrs 2 mins! Pretty happy with that.
However, jumping on the bus we were soon disappointed, shortly after getting into England, 5th gear went. We were driving along in 4th, would we have the others? The answer soon came when we came off the motorway and were forced to stop at traffic lights, sure enough 4th was ALL we had! We pulled over and had to sit and wait the AA.
Our hopes of completing the challenge ruined by a dodgey old minibus! So my training set back, I'm running a long run today to make up for it!