Peter Sagues

Jane, I’ve quickly read through your ‘clean’ version, which has accomplished what I wanted. I’m looking forward to seeing what you removed and changed, because I have barely noticed the missing 700 words.

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Why are there photos of mountain scenes on this website?

In my mid-forties, with no evident provocation, as a lifelong sea-level dweller I suddenly found myself with an obsessive desire to be in the mountains. To live in the mountains, to breathe the mountains, to meld with the mountains. Since then I've been exploring ever upwards, mostly in the Orobie mountains of Italy, and also in Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia, Greece, Switzerland, and elsewhere.

Grecian trail companions

During lockdown 2020 this desire to be in the mountains expanded into the desire to move swiftly and self-sufficiently through mountainous terrain, and so at the age of just-about-50, as a lifelong non-athlete I started running. This expanded further into structured training following the Uphill Athlete methodology.

In September 2021, curious and interested to test the effect of the training and my body's actual capacity, I did a race in the Swiss Alps: 32 km and a cumulative 2200 m of altitude gain (and spectacular scenery!).