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Spine Race write up is finished.
It is LONG.
Thanks to @paul_steele for hosting it for me because I had no idea how to create my own site to post it on 👇🏼
Mel Sykes
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Mel Sykes
@nuddypants
Ultra runner 🏃🏼♀️. Training for the Spine Race 💪🏽. Goes up hill🏔. Cafe stop queen 🚴🏼♀️👸🏽. Specialist Podiatrist 🦶🏼. #Yorkshire
Holmfirth, UK
Joined March 2009
- I spent a good chunk of this mornings run removing tape/race signs from the Pennine Way. 😕 These were left by a race company 2 weeks ago. I emailed them on Tues, tagged them on Insta and someone posted my screenshot onto their FB page. No reply. The post was removed… 1/2
- Replying to @nuddypants…and someone had commented “people will always find something to complain about” 🤬 Anyway. I’ve cleared it. But I shouldn’t have to. Someone went and marked it out. Someone could have taken them back in. Poor show @IGUNrunning
- On yesterday’s ride I was passed 3 times by lorries from the same company (Farrell Transport) and each one was textbook and safe👌🏼 I dropped them an email to say it was noticed and appreciated as it doesn’t happen much these days 😊
- High Force Waterfall was in FULL flow yesterday. The noise!!
00:00 - Great news for me 🥉 but really bad news for sportsmanship 😕 The below happened because a fellow competitor cheated. She travelled in a car for around 2.5 miles of the M2L 50 mile event last week. After an investigation, she has now been DQ’d, and rightly so. 🧵
- If you want the summit of Snowdon to yourself… ….Thursday night at 8pm is the one 👌🏼
- 8 hours on a training course entitled “how to manage stress at work” today. 😫 90 mins on my bike this evening beats anything I learnt in that 8 hours 🚴🏼♀️
- 99.25 miles in total. 14758ft of elevation. 5 days. 0 midge bites. 100’s of amazing views. Solo hike of the West Highland Way completed. 🏔👌🏽
- Did an ultra marathon. Really tough route around the Lakes but I’ve had the absolute BEST day. 🏔😍 4th female and 12th overall.
- The Winter Spine race 2025. What. A. Ride! The Pennine Way tried a few times to stop me from reaching Kirk Yetholm, but it didn’t win. I am immensely proud of the last 5 days and pushing through to the finish line of such an iconic event. Thank you for all the messages 🥰
- What a race! 110 miles along the Pennine Way in 32 hours. Battered by a thunderstorm overnight, a mug of tea at Malham then a death march over the cam high road to the finish. Would I do it again? Absolutely!!
Mel Sykes has arrived in Hardraw as the winner of the Montane Summer Spine Challenger South. She’s arrived with an almighty lead over her closest rival after an extremely tenacious performance throughout a difficult night and day today… #SpineRace #SummerSpine 1/3 
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