<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/0d51a418-b902-4237-8e56-6aeb1436e1ed/B5D9D8C3-201C-4852-82CC-69ADF92F3C21/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/3270058/Lake-District-mountain-marathon-You-dont-have-to-be-mad-to-run-here.html" href="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/3270058/Lake-District-mountain-marathon-You-dont-have-to-be-mad-to-run-here.html" style="font-size: 11px;">www.telegraph.co.uk</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/3270058/Lake-District-mountain-marathon-You-dont-have-to-be-mad-to-run-here.html"><H1>Lake District mountain marathon: You don't have to be mad to run here</H1></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/3270058/Lake-District-mountain-marathon-You-dont-have-to-be-mad-to-run-here.html"><H2> But when setting off on a mountain marathon, it sure helps, says Tarquin Cooper </H2></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/3270058/Lake-District-mountain-marathon-You-dont-have-to-be-mad-to-run-here.html"><P> By Tarquin Cooper Last Updated: 8:14PM GMT 27 Oct 2008</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/3270058/Lake-District-mountain-marathon-You-dont-have-to-be-mad-to-run-here.html"><div align="center"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.telegraph.co.uk/img/1331C8B7-E8EB-4338-8985-03D1A0075BB2" alt="Runners competing in the Original Mountain Marathon on Honister Pass in the Lake District" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/3270058/Lake-District-mountain-marathon-You-dont-have-to-be-mad-to-run-here.html"><P> Looking at footage of the runners caught out in the Lake District this weekend, in the most treacherous weather in the Original Mountain Marathon's 40-year history, I pitied the television crews searching for downbeat subjects to interview. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/3270058/Lake-District-mountain-marathon-You-dont-have-to-be-mad-to-run-here.html"><P> From afar, the racers looked like brow-beaten survivors of Dunkirk. But on closer examination, you could see them grinning at every opportunity, giving the thumbs-up – and the lie to the idea they were all in imminent mortal danger. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/3270058/Lake-District-mountain-marathon-You-dont-have-to-be-mad-to-run-here.html"><P> Or you forget it. The survival expert Dr Mike Stroud (and marathon partner of Sir Ranulph Fiennes) once told me that to do these things one does not need to be particularly fit or strong, but have a ''defective short- term memory''. </P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.telegraph.co.uk/sport/3270058/Lake-District-mountain-marathon-You-dont-have-to-be-mad-to-run-here.html">and be left only with pride and memories that stay with you for a very long time. </blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/B5D9D8C3-201C-4852-82CC-69ADF92F3C21/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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