Why Would You Run the Bob Graham Twice?

<p>The Bob Graham, Paddy Buckley and Charlie Ramsay Rounds are three of Britain&#39;s great mountain running challenges. Each is roughly 60 miles long, climbs thousands of metres and has traditionally been treated as a lifetime achievement in its own right.</p><p>James decided to run all three <strong>twice</strong>.</p><p>He completed the Double Bob Graham in the Lake District, the Double Paddy Buckley in Snowdonia and the Double Charlie Ramsay in the Scottish Highlands — all within six months, setting the fastest known time for each.</p><p>Across the three challenges, he covered more than 350 miles and climbed around 50,000 metres.</p><p>But the numbers only tell part of the story.</p><p>In this conversation, James explains what it feels like to be moving through the mountains for 40 or 50 hours, what happens to your mind after a second night without sleep, and why he sometimes sees Roman numerals and faces in the rocks.</p><p>We talk about the 60-plus-mile-an-hour winds that battered him on the Paddy Buckley, the moment he realised his 48-hour target was slipping away, and the support runner who drove across the country to help someone he&#39;d never met before.</p><p>We also talk about the final ten minutes of the Double Ramsay, why James actually enjoys climbing when he&#39;s exhausted, and what keeps drawing him back to increasingly difficult challenges.</p><p>And, inevitably, we finish by talking about what&#39;s next.</p><p>James is planning to spend this winter attempting to complete a self-propelled Munro Round in around 50–60 days.</p><p>It seems that the Double Trilogy wasn&#39;t the end of the story after all.</p><p><strong>In this episode:</strong></p><ul><li>What the Bob Graham, Paddy Buckley and Charlie Ramsay Rounds involve</li><li>Why James decided to double all three</li><li>What 50 hours on the mountains actually feels like</li><li>Sleep deprivation and hallucinations</li><li>Running through extreme weather</li><li>The importance of support runners</li><li>The ten-minute finish on the Double Ramsay</li><li>The mental side of ultra-distance running</li><li>Why James loves these wild places</li><li>His next challenge: a winter Munro Round</li></ul><p><br></p>