Events/Montane Spine Race

Montane Spine Race

Running
Date
Sun, 10 Jan 2027
Venue
Edale → Kirk Yetholm (Pennine Way), Great Britain
Countdown
January
Distance
431km
Total climb
12,000m

268 miles down the full length of the Pennine Way, run non-stop in the deep of a British winter. Edale to Kirk Yetholm, no stages, no marked course. The clock never stops until you reach Scotland.

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The course

The route

The full Pennine Way from Edale in the Peak District to Kirk Yetholm on the Scottish border, over Kinder, Pen-y-ghent, Tan Hill, Cross Fell and the Cheviots. Around 12,000m of climbing, with a roughly seven-day limit and enforced checkpoint cutoffs.

Weather

Early-January, Edale → Kirk Yetholm (Pennine Way)

5°CTypical high
1°CTypical low
-8°CColdest in 20 years
59%Days with rain

Highs around 5°C and lows around 1°C, but it has dropped to -8°C. Rain on 59% of days. Pack for the cold end, not the average.

NASA POWER data, 2006-2025, the week either side of race day
2024 results

Who finishes, and how

#RiderTimeGap
01Hannah Rickman104:41:07inc. -01:46:00
02Claire Bannwarth92:02:23
03Lucy Gossage106:05:26
16
Women finishers
5d 9:59:50
Median time
Women · 2024 results, as published by the organiser.
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Training

Training for the Montane Spine Race

We don't do generic plans. We combine deep knowledge of this race's demands with your recent training, then build a plan with you that progresses as you do.

Beina integrates directly with your existing tools to understand your current fitness, and synchronise your planned sessions.

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What the Spine throws at you
Typical sessions
Four or five nights on the move with the clock never stopping, so sleep becomes a race decision, not a break.
Around half the route is energy-sapping peat bog and exposed moorland that soaks your feet for days.
Freezing wind, rain and snow on the tops, with genuine hypothermia risk and no marked course to follow.
A heavy winter safety pack carried the whole way, far heavier than a summer trail vest.
What your weeks look like
Typical sessions
Long winter days and cold night runs, building to a 12 to 24 hour overnight effort on exposed, boggy ground.
Winter navigation runs with map and compass, including after dark, until route-finding is automatic.
Back-to-back multi-night long runs with strategic micro-sleeps to rehearse sleeping against the clock.
Full-kit long runs carrying the winter pack, plus pole-hike climb repeats and wet-feet management drills.
Not a generic schedule
Typical sessions
Built from your current fitness and the time you actually have
Adapts every week as Beina learns how you respond
Syncs your sessions straight to Garmin and Wahoo
One clear next session, never a wall of spreadsheet
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