Winter Tranter Round Record
On Monday 26th February 2018 I set a new Tranter Round record. Here's some of the key info, in reply to questions posed by Dan Bailey of UK Climbing / Hillwalking: OK Finlay, here’s a few Qs: 14:24:48 … wow! Did you set out from the outset to try for the winter record? I mainly decided to go and do the round because I was aware conditions were great. I’d just read Helen Rennard’s account from her traverse the week before, and I’d been out in the hills and seen how fast and firm conditions were. I was also aware Monday was the last day I could fit in a traverse before March (and so the last day I could do it within the 3 core winter months). So my main goal was having a great day out in some of my favourite mountains, but the record was of course an objective. I’ve been round faster than the winter running record on skis, with Tim Gomersall (in 17hr 35m on 28th Feb 2016) and although of course this is a different discipline, I feel I can draw several parallels w