Rich Kendall
@richkrunner.bsky.social
Ultra runner, coach, and part time civil servant.
Marathon Monday! Day off so hit the trails after some Christmas shopping. If you set off into the hills at 2pm, it's gonna go dark... Pics are from Kinder looking towards Manchester at dusk, and New Mills Tors. #runsky #trailrunning #running #ultra
November 24, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Marathon Monday! Day off so hit the trails after some Christmas shopping. If you set off into the hills at 2pm, it's gonna go dark... Pics are from Kinder looking towards Manchester at dusk, and New Mills Tors. #runsky #trailrunning #running #ultra
Lakes run this Friday - this is Kidsty Pike looking at High Street. Generally great conditions, just a few small drifts. Felt warmer in this spot on on the Northern Traverse back in April! #runsky #running #fellrunning
November 23, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Lakes run this Friday - this is Kidsty Pike looking at High Street. Generally great conditions, just a few small drifts. Felt warmer in this spot on on the Northern Traverse back in April! #runsky #running #fellrunning
That "my shoes aren't grippy enough but there's a camera so look happy" look. Descending Fell Head in the Howgills. #running #trailrunning #fellrunning
November 10, 2025 at 3:48 PM
That "my shoes aren't grippy enough but there's a camera so look happy" look. Descending Fell Head in the Howgills. #running #trailrunning #fellrunning
Lovely run through the Yorkshire Dales yesterday, just over 50km from Kirkby Stephen to Horton, after travelling on the Settle to Carlisle railway. Finished in the dark over Ingleborough (on purpose, stated late) for an adventurous end. #running #trailrunning #fellrunning #ultra
November 9, 2025 at 11:22 AM
Lovely run through the Yorkshire Dales yesterday, just over 50km from Kirkby Stephen to Horton, after travelling on the Settle to Carlisle railway. Finished in the dark over Ingleborough (on purpose, stated late) for an adventurous end. #running #trailrunning #fellrunning #ultra
Now that I'm officially over it, here's a achilles tendonitis photo, when it was fresh from 300km Northern Traverse. Some things learned:
1) recovery is slow, steady, and not linear. Stay patient.
2) using it helps, as long as pain stays below 3 out of 10.
3) specific exercises (heel lifts) help too
1) recovery is slow, steady, and not linear. Stay patient.
2) using it helps, as long as pain stays below 3 out of 10.
3) specific exercises (heel lifts) help too
October 19, 2025 at 5:13 PM
Now that I'm officially over it, here's a achilles tendonitis photo, when it was fresh from 300km Northern Traverse. Some things learned:
1) recovery is slow, steady, and not linear. Stay patient.
2) using it helps, as long as pain stays below 3 out of 10.
3) specific exercises (heel lifts) help too
1) recovery is slow, steady, and not linear. Stay patient.
2) using it helps, as long as pain stays below 3 out of 10.
3) specific exercises (heel lifts) help too
Another one from last weekend and Lakes in a Day - very unusual to have such amazing weather in October, and a delight to coincide with race day. Last time this was sideways rain and wading through an expanded Windermere. #running #ultra #fellrunning #runchat
October 19, 2025 at 9:59 AM
Another one from last weekend and Lakes in a Day - very unusual to have such amazing weather in October, and a delight to coincide with race day. Last time this was sideways rain and wading through an expanded Windermere. #running #ultra #fellrunning #runchat
Blencathra summit, looking south towards the Helvellyn range, on the Lakes in a Day 50 mile mountain ultra yesterday #running #trailrunning #fellrunning #runsky
October 12, 2025 at 8:56 AM
Blencathra summit, looking south towards the Helvellyn range, on the Lakes in a Day 50 mile mountain ultra yesterday #running #trailrunning #fellrunning #runsky
Ill Bell in the Lakes, one of the best little summits on a great ridge. 34km today from Ambleside. Feeling good after a big 7 days and back to back long fell days. Taper time now ahead of the epic that is Lakes in a Day. #running #fellrunning #trailrunning #runsky
September 26, 2025 at 6:10 PM
Ill Bell in the Lakes, one of the best little summits on a great ridge. 34km today from Ambleside. Feeling good after a big 7 days and back to back long fell days. Taper time now ahead of the epic that is Lakes in a Day. #running #fellrunning #trailrunning #runsky
Lingy Hut in the northern fells, view down towards Mosedale, towards the end of a circuit of the Caldew Valley. #running #fellrunning #trailrunning #runsky
September 26, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Lingy Hut in the northern fells, view down towards Mosedale, towards the end of a circuit of the Caldew Valley. #running #fellrunning #trailrunning #runsky
Beautiful day in the Lakes today - a 38km circuit of the Caldew valley, aka Back o' Skidda. Apart from the obvious honeypots of Blencathra and Skiddaw, a quiet area with great views to Scotland and the Pennines. #fellrunning #trailrunning #running #runsky
September 25, 2025 at 6:51 PM
Beautiful day in the Lakes today - a 38km circuit of the Caldew valley, aka Back o' Skidda. Apart from the obvious honeypots of Blencathra and Skiddaw, a quiet area with great views to Scotland and the Pennines. #fellrunning #trailrunning #running #runsky
A break from running at the weekend - instead a wet weather camping trip with my eldest daughter, and took a trip to Cathedral Quarry in Little Langdale - stunning, and she loved practising taking photos...
September 16, 2025 at 11:42 AM
A break from running at the weekend - instead a wet weather camping trip with my eldest daughter, and took a trip to Cathedral Quarry in Little Langdale - stunning, and she loved practising taking photos...
Nice long run today sticking to the high ground around the near part of the Peak District - using some of the routes of the Kinder Trog and Bullock Smithy race routes. 45km and around 1500m ascent. #trailrunning #running #ultra #runsky
September 5, 2025 at 8:14 PM
Nice long run today sticking to the high ground around the near part of the Peak District - using some of the routes of the Kinder Trog and Bullock Smithy race routes. 45km and around 1500m ascent. #trailrunning #running #ultra #runsky
Love the sight of an easy, grassy, downhill trail taking you where you want to go, on a sunny day! Home-made trail marathon route around some of my favourite local hills, western Peak District. #running #runsky #trailrunning
September 2, 2025 at 5:29 AM
Love the sight of an easy, grassy, downhill trail taking you where you want to go, on a sunny day! Home-made trail marathon route around some of my favourite local hills, western Peak District. #running #runsky #trailrunning
On a Dad & daughters camping trip up in the Lakes - so not a running week but getting some glorious views on shorter walks while dodging the rain!
August 28, 2025 at 8:07 AM
On a Dad & daughters camping trip up in the Lakes - so not a running week but getting some glorious views on shorter walks while dodging the rain!
Rounding out the Cornwall trip with a run up the tough Bude-Hartland section of the SW Coast Path, over the frontier into Devon, round the corner to Clovelly. Stunning on the W-facing coastline, more pastoral for a while then lovely woodland approaching Clovelly. #running #trailrunning #ultra
August 16, 2025 at 1:46 PM
Rounding out the Cornwall trip with a run up the tough Bude-Hartland section of the SW Coast Path, over the frontier into Devon, round the corner to Clovelly. Stunning on the W-facing coastline, more pastoral for a while then lovely woodland approaching Clovelly. #running #trailrunning #ultra
SW coast path - a run from Boscastle to our base at Widemouth Bay - about 25km with plenty of ascent - clocked around 1,500m! That's like a category A fell race without ever getting more than 200m above sea level. #trailrunning #running
August 15, 2025 at 4:29 PM
SW coast path - a run from Boscastle to our base at Widemouth Bay - about 25km with plenty of ascent - clocked around 1,500m! That's like a category A fell race without ever getting more than 200m above sea level. #trailrunning #running
I wonder what's around that corner... Oh look, another drop to almost sea level and re-ascent! The lesson of the SW coast path is that any bit you can't see hides a steep cove like this. #trailrunning
August 14, 2025 at 5:32 PM
I wonder what's around that corner... Oh look, another drop to almost sea level and re-ascent! The lesson of the SW coast path is that any bit you can't see hides a steep cove like this. #trailrunning
Cornishcoast path - beautiful running, often tough, generally a surprise around every corner (usually a steep up and down). Pic is one of the easier sections into Bude. #running #trailrunning
August 13, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Cornishcoast path - beautiful running, often tough, generally a surprise around every corner (usually a steep up and down). Pic is one of the easier sections into Bude. #running #trailrunning
Great day out yesterday on the Borrowdale Watershed - a 50km route around the valley with 3,000m elevation. Superb views into many corners of the Lake District. Really busy west of the valley, hardly a soul on the marshy east side. #running #fellrunning #ultrarunning
August 3, 2025 at 7:47 AM
Great day out yesterday on the Borrowdale Watershed - a 50km route around the valley with 3,000m elevation. Superb views into many corners of the Lake District. Really busy west of the valley, hardly a soul on the marshy east side. #running #fellrunning #ultrarunning
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A write-up of a 57 mile traverse of the Bannau Brycheniog (Brecon Beacons) from a few weeks ago, for those who enjoy reading fairly long blog posts about fairly long runs. Also, sheep on the line and a lady of the lake.
A write-up of a 57 mile traverse of the Bannau Brycheniog (Brecon Beacons) from a few weeks ago, for those who enjoy reading fairly long blog posts about fairly long runs. Also, sheep on the line and a lady of the lake.
Bannau Brycheniog - Targetultra.com
This was a multi-purpose run, to meet a few aims… The journey down involved changing at Shrewsbury to access the “Heart of Wales” line to Swansea, via a lot of small towns and tiny villages. The scene...
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July 26, 2025 at 2:59 PM
targetultra.com/bannau-brych...
A write-up of a 57 mile traverse of the Bannau Brycheniog (Brecon Beacons) from a few weeks ago, for those who enjoy reading fairly long blog posts about fairly long runs. Also, sheep on the line and a lady of the lake.
A write-up of a 57 mile traverse of the Bannau Brycheniog (Brecon Beacons) from a few weeks ago, for those who enjoy reading fairly long blog posts about fairly long runs. Also, sheep on the line and a lady of the lake.
Taking "road support" in its broadest sense... well I started at a road. Lovely views once the morning clag cleared, supporting a Fleetwood Lakes 40 round #running #fellrunning
July 18, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Taking "road support" in its broadest sense... well I started at a road. Lovely views once the morning clag cleared, supporting a Fleetwood Lakes 40 round #running #fellrunning
Room with a view - waiting for Ben to appear on his Fleetwood Lakes 40 round - a quieter (and less eroded) alternative to the Bob Graham Round. Well worth considering for those looking for a challenge, without adding to BG traffic.
#running #fellrunning
#running #fellrunning
July 18, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Room with a view - waiting for Ben to appear on his Fleetwood Lakes 40 round - a quieter (and less eroded) alternative to the Bob Graham Round. Well worth considering for those looking for a challenge, without adding to BG traffic.
#running #fellrunning
#running #fellrunning
Lovely run overnight Monday and through Tuesday, crossing the Bannau Brycheniog between Ammanford and Abergavenny. #runsky #trailrunning
July 9, 2025 at 10:57 AM
Lovely run overnight Monday and through Tuesday, crossing the Bannau Brycheniog between Ammanford and Abergavenny. #runsky #trailrunning
Lovely 10k trail run last night, leading a group of relative newcomers to off-road running. #trailrunning #running #runsky
June 24, 2025 at 6:35 PM
Lovely 10k trail run last night, leading a group of relative newcomers to off-road running. #trailrunning #running #runsky
Lovely local run around Werneth Low, Cown Edge and Lantern Pike. Managed about 12 units/hr for over 3hrs (1 unit = 1km or 100m vert) - the recovery continues! Also made myself useful by taking the car to the garage #runsky #trailrunning #running
June 13, 2025 at 3:17 PM
Lovely local run around Werneth Low, Cown Edge and Lantern Pike. Managed about 12 units/hr for over 3hrs (1 unit = 1km or 100m vert) - the recovery continues! Also made myself useful by taking the car to the garage #runsky #trailrunning #running