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UK Big 3 Rounds
Ultras by Region

Completion Logs & Records


Route Index

​Abraham's Tea Round

Andy's  Southern Fells

Assynt Traverse
Bala Challenge

Bay Limestone Round

Bob  Baxter  Traverse
Bob Graham Round
Bowland Dozen
Bowland 1500’s
Broxap Round

Cairngorm Munros
Canary Islands 3 Peaks
Charlie Ramsay Round
Charnley Way

Cleveland Hills Challenge
Cuillin Round
Cumbrian Traverse
Dales Skyline
Dales Top Ten
Dales 2000’s

Dark Peak County Tops

Dark Peak 15 Trigs

Dartmoor Round

Denis Rankin Round

Dragon’s Tongue
Durham Hewitts

Etive Munros Round

Freeman Round
Glen Lyon Corbett Round
Great North Inns Run
Harvey Howgill Tops

John Fleetwood Lakes 40

John Fleetwood Lakes Routes

John Fleetwood Scottish Routes

John Fleetwood Welsh Round

Joss Naylor Lakeland Challenge

Knoydart 7
Lakes 24
Lakes 25@25
Lakes 2500’s

Lakes Sea to Summits

Llangollen Hills Run

Loch  Lomond  Round

Leventon’s Line
Meirionnydd Round
National & Yorkshire 3 Peaks
No Cure Always Hope
Over The Hill Round
Paddy Buckley Round

Peak Traverses & Rounds

Pikes of the Lakes

Saddleworth  10 Trigs

Ring of Fire - Galloway
Scottish 4000’s

Six County Tops - Peak
Snowdonia Skyline
Snowdon to Pumlumon

South Pennine 39 Trigs
South Wales Traverse

Steve Parr Round

Tan Hill to Kirkstone Pass Inn
Tranter’s Round

Tyndrum Round
Upper Calder 13 Trigs
Wainwright 7 Summits

Wainwrights 30@30

Wicklow  Round
Yorkshire Round
Yorkshire 2000’s

 

Other  Ultras

Sub-Ultras

COMPLETIONS

Where there is a recorder please contact them to log your completion. In addition, or if there isn't a recorder, you are invited to share your experience on the gofar facebook page to encourage and inspire other runners to have a go!

Distance - miles

Summits

Ascent - feet

First Completed

Completions

Fastest Times

Fastest Lady

Bob Graham Round

66

42

27000

1932/1960

2819

Jack Kuenzie

12-23-48 (2022)

Beth Pascall

14-34 (2020)

 

Charlie Ramsay Round

56

24

28000

1978

251

Finlay Wild

14-42 (2020)

Jasmine Paris

16-13 (2016)

 

Paddy Buckley Round

61

47

28000

1982

 277 

 

Finlay Wild

15-14-45 (2022)

Lizzie Richardson

17-23 (2023)

The Big 3 - Some Outstanding Achievements

The Big 3 in one go

Mike Hartley completed all three rounds consecutively in 3 days 14 hours and 20 minutes in July 1990.  That's some 187 miles with 83000 feet of ascent involving 113 tops!  Times for each round were as follows:

Charlie Ramsay Round

Bob Graham Round

Paddy Buckley Round

21 hours 14 minutes

23 hours 48 minutes

33 hours 30 minutes

The Big 3 in one season

The following runners have completed the Big 3 in one season:

Helen Diamantides

Adrian Bolton

Jon Chapman

Tom Philips

Jasmin Paris

Tim Ripper

The Big 3 as Double Rounds

Nicky Spinks is the only person to have completed the Big 3 rounds as doubles.  Her times were as follows:

Bob Graham Round                  43 hours 30 minutes  (2016)

Charlie Ramsay Round             56 hours 56 minutes  (2018)

Paddy Buckley Round               57 hours 27 minutes  (2019)

John Kelly completed the Big 3 rounds by foot and bike in a total time of 130 hours 43 mins during August 2020.  That is 190 miles of running with 84,000' ascent  plus 400 miles of cycling from Capel Curig to Fort William in well under 6 days.  

Paddy Buckley Round          22 hours 07 minutes     then a 167 miles bike ride in 12-45

Bob Graham Round             23 hours 40 minutes      then a 231 miles bike ride in 19-02

Charlie Ramsay Round        34 hours 43 minutes     

Extended Rounds

Bob Graham Round

(24 Hour Fell-walking Record)

 

Paddy Buckley Round

 

Men

42 Alan Heaton

51 Ken Heaton

54 Alan Heaton

56 Eric Beard

60 Alan Heaton

61 Joss Naylor

63 Joss Naylor

72 Joss Naylor

76 Mark McDermott

77 Mark Hartell

78 Kim Collinson

78 Andy Berry

Women

42  Jean Dawes

58  Anne Marie Grindley

62  Anne Stentiford

64  Nicky Spinks

65  Carol Morgan

65 Nicky Spinks

68 Fiona Pascall

22-18  1960

22-13  1961

23-48  1962

23-35  1963

23-34  1965

23-37  1971

23-35  1972

23-11  1975

23-26  1988

23-47  1998

23-45  2020

23-23  2023

23-37 1977

23-20 1979

23-17 1994

23-15  2011

23-57  2020

23-45  2021

23-36  2022

23-45  2021

23-26  2022

26 Martin Stone

28 Adrian Belton

23-24 1987

23-57 1991

51 Adrian Belton

22-00 1989

Charlie Ramsay Round

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The UK Big 3 Rounds - Statistics at 1st January 2024

The Big 3 as a Continuous Duathlon

SAFETY WARNING

 

All the routes on this site require proven mountain running experience. You undertake them entirely at your own risk. Please take full mountain safety precautions at all times.  Always ensure you carry sufficient clothing, food and equipment to cope with dramatic changes in the weather conditions!  Appropriate insurance cover is recommended.

HAVE A GO!

The object of this website is to provide a single, ready source of information on the ultra-distance mountain challenges which have been developed over the past four or more decades. It now offers a diverse range of long and "short", old and recent, formal and informal routes from around the UK to encourage runners of all ages and abilities to have a go, subject to proven mountain experience in all conditions.

FRA LONG DISTANCE

RECORDS and NEWS

 

Please send details of any record-breaking runs and the like to Martin Stone who maintains records on behalf of the Fell Runners Association. Email:  martin.stone@sportident.co.uk

Please also refer to the guidelines and definitions in the FRA Handbook.

HELP WANTED

If you can improve on the accuracy of this resource, spot any errors in grid references, names, heights, spelling or punctuation, or find a link which does not work please email Tony Wimbush.: gofar99@gmail.com

Similarly, if you wish to submit any new (or old) routes for inclusion see the contact page for the information and format that is required:. 

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