Train to Run - a trip to the Basque Country
Published in The Fellrunner Magazine #124 (Oct 2019) Finlay competing in Zegama-Aizkorri race 2019 (13th) We live in an age of ever increasing opportunities for our running. Trail running and ‘skyrunning’ is booming with many new races springing up all over the world. There is more media coverage, more prize money, and more choice. Over the past few years I have been lucky enough to compete with some of the world’s best hill runners in races which have taken me to new and exciting places. We also live at the exact time in human history where our global response to the man-made climate crisis is critical: science is telling us that we now have just a small window in which to make rapid and unprecedented societal changes to quickly reduce our greenhouse-gas emissions and limit future catastrophic warming. I will often talk of how important the mountains are to me but increasingly I have been worried about how our mountain-chasing lifestyles are damaging the planet. In...