Sidmouth Running Club’s Louise Dalton was one of a handful of women taking on Climb South West’s North Coast 110 mile ultra at the weekend. Billed as the toughest ultra in the South West with 6,000m elevation gain and 12 hours of darkness, Louise was up for the challenge and all her training and preparation paid off.
Starting from Hartland Quay the route follows the SW coast path to Minehead where Louise finished 2nd female, 7th overall in 27 hours and 20 minutes. The Mighty Green paid tribute to Sidmouth Running club for their support and encouragement especially to Mark Andow, Mark Norton and Adrian Harris. They formed her on the ground support crew taking it in turns to run through the night keeping her going through 35 miles of nausea, bringing extra fuel along the way, transporting her to the start at 4.30am and bringing her home-they even changed her filthy socks!
