 Welcome to film my run, my name's Stephen. Here we are at Kinlock-Leven in Scotland. We're here for the Skyline Scotland weekend and now the first VK runners starting. We've already had the Ring of Steel Golden trail series race started. That went off earlier today, and we're expecting the runners back in a couple of hours and The VK runners are off on their one kilometer vertical journey uphill So the Ring of Steel has pretty much finished. The VK has finished It's Saturday afternoon, and we're heading to race registration for tomorrow's Ben Nevis Ultra It's coming up to half past seven on Sunday morning Quite nervous now. The thing is having having already done the CMD erect, which is the kind of the ridge between Cirmor-Degg and Ben Nevis Which is the kind of airy erect that we have to traverse. Having already done that once I know what's coming, and that's making me frightened already Yeah, I'm nervous There we are. It's a it's a bit rainy Very cloudy No wind So we'll see what happens So Glencoe Skyline is off and running These are the big guys. These guys know what they're doing So in order to do that race you need to be vetted by the organisers Or they don't let you in basically, and I of all the races that I've done. I'm not qualified to do that race Some serious climbing in that Right three minutes to go to start Why are we here again? We didn't make it last time. What makes me think I'm gonna make this again tight cut-offs A little bit of scariness And it's dark and it's wet, but you know what the hell let's enjoy ourselves All right, so here we are 10k into the Ben Nevis Ultra one hour 44 minutes and Doing okay, I do feel like lots of people are passing me which is a bit disconcerting, but I feel like I'm running all right, so We'll see how it goes 15 kilometers in two and a half hours Now we climb Ben Nevis So big drop down there Big drop down there, but this is actually not too bad this section It's when we get to the actual ret that it gets a little bit hairy But this bit I've seemed to remember isn't too bad Okay, so we've made it to the top of Carmel Degs, CMD 20 kilometers in four and a quarter hours so we've got about two and three-quarter hours to get across the CMD O'Ret And up to the top of Ben Nevis and down the other side of it Fingers crossed we can do that. You can't see much I'm afraid This is the CMD O'Ret Basically just a massive boulder field Okay, so this is the top of Ben Nevis We've made it to the summit And I think I think we've got enough time to get in in the cutoff So you can't do a race to the top of Ben Nevis without actually going to the summit so that's that is the top And now we've got an hour and a half to get back down. Thank you guys Cheers. Thank you So this is the view coming down Then there is once we've got under the clouds again so we're out of the clouds it's a Beautiful day down here. There's halfway lake. So that lake there means we are halfway down the descent We've got about an hour and 15 minutes left to get down before cutoff so we should easily make it He says confidently Sorry for talking with my mouth full. Last year we didn't make it here in time This year 20 minutes early. That's good So we can carry on, can't we? 20 minutes to get to the next checkpoint, which closes at Corpus Falls now 1535 and then once we've hit that checkpoint and we're clear or to actually finish in the race So we've got about a kilometer to go to the next checkpoint To the next checkpoint. Oh what to the next one? Okay. Oh blimey. But we were near the next checkpoint. Oh well We're doing this time. Lodge Fitter, the cutoff at Vennebis at Fort William. 20 minutes to spare all the way here And didn't make it by a minute and a half two minutes and We've got like 10k to go. There's about 30 of us here now. We're all absolutely Well to be honest pissed off is is the word really pissed off because we've got four hours Do I sound do I sound annoyed? We've got four hours to get home and it's 10k. Okay It's a bit of a climb, but we've done that before we're all experienced ultra runners here You know we can do 13 hundred meters of climb in under four hours easily but they have to impose a cutoff at some point so We haven't made it. So there's a few of us here look What's your name? Right John is particularly fed up That's the time of my government. I'm a head need to eat That's it. That's an absolute bastard Yeah I Yeah, well some guy said to me that Last time he did it. He made it all the way to the finish, but I can I can't look at this He said he finished at 12 and a half hours That's a very good point what they should say John's just said they should they should let you carry on from here get over the finish line You get you get a medal, but you know you don't get an official result fair enough Just to give you like the glory of crossing the line or just like feel like you've accomplished something sitting here now We feel like we've all failed and like and we're left in the middle of nowhere. We've got a trudge back now to get the bus back Just it just feels really frustrating Beautiful view So this is kind of the area of steel falls low lower steel falls and higher falls So we're basically just we're walking back to the road where we can get a shuttle bus back to Start line finish line start line Even more pissed off than last year So here we are on the start line as they're packing away on a Monday morning It's the day after the disaster that was yesterday. I wasn't a disaster. It was just One of those things I guess partly partly my fault You know, I should have I should have known exactly what was required Like the year before a little bit of complacency maybe I Knew that I had to get down to Fort William off Ben Nevis by 3 p.m I knew that and I managed that I didn't know how far it was To that aid station or that that checkpoint A quarter past four. I knew I had to get there by quarter past four I didn't know exactly how far it was and on the route. We kept getting told different things So it made it tough, but now I know exactly what we have to do to finish the Ben Nevis ultra I know exactly how far it is from Fort William at the aid station at Fort William at the bottom of Ben Nevis to The River at Steel Falls. I know exactly how far is it's 12 kilometers And I haven't you have an hour and a quarter if you if you manage to get to the aid station at the bottom of Ben Nevis by 3 p.m. Cut-off time You you only have an hour and a quarter to do those 12 kilometers So the idea is to get down off Ben Nevis as quickly as you possibly can giving yourself as much time as possible And then don't dawdle at the aid station. I did that a bit yesterday I spent about 10 minutes at the aid station getting food and Relaxing and I should have just got what I needed quickly and left Lessons learned for next time. I I'm still gutted about yesterday still a little bit annoyed about yesterday, but I'm not feeling quite as despondent as I was yesterday afternoon So I know that I'm coming back next year. Well, as long as I can get a place I know I'm coming back and I know exactly what I need to do to finish So there we are. That's it. I hope you've enjoyed watching shame. We didn't do the last hill But we'll do it next year. Take care from fill my run. See you for another adventure next time. Bye. Bye