Snowdon

At least once a year I try and go up Snowdon. It can be a bit tough in bits and the weather conditions can change in seconds, freezing cold, gale force winds, heavy cloud cover, you just never know what to expect on the ascent.
Each time I go up I have been trying to go up faster or do a different route or section. This time I took the main Miners path which sort of follows the train tracks for a fair distance. I made it up from the Llanberis train station in exactly 1 Hour 30 minutes and the whole ascent was one of the best that I've done. Even though it was 20degrees there was hardly anyone on the mountain, certainly not the large tourist crowds that you can get wandering about in the summer. The sky was cloudless and the slightest of wind blew, even at the cross over bridge and at the summit.
All the people you see on the mountain say hi and all the girls just look ace and gorgeous in their vests and salomon shoes or boots. Chicks and North Face is always a better combo than scousebrows and heels in my option. Mind you there is a time and a place for everything.
As you can see from these snaps there was the obligatory sheep dogs on the summit and I'd grown a beard to get into the whole 'outdoors' style, rounded off with a buff snood thing, a few base layers and a hydration backpack. Style, fashion and function. Haha, I ain't Bear Gryles.

Snowdon is one of the other 3 peaks

I go up Snowdon at least once a year, usually via the Llanberis route that sort of follows the train tracks up. This year was slightly different type of ascent for me in that I tried to go up as fast as comfortably possible, this would be part of my 3 Peaks training. I jogged, yomped and staggered up, not really slaughtering myself but I wasn't just ambling. It was pretty wet and very cloudy all the way up from about 500feet which sucked so there were no views at the summit.
The 3 Peaks Cyclocross race is pretty insane. Check it out on the interweb. I'd managed to get a much sought after place in this years. I've spent the last 2 months riding as much as possible in the Welsh hills, scrambling up insanely steep climbs, running in sand dunes, sprinting up thousands of steps, carrying my bike up long grassy hills, riding off road and doing all kinds of daft stuff that I thought would help me finish the race. I certainly ain't a fast or strong rider, but I'd hope to be ADEQUATE enough to get to the end of it.
As it is, I doubt I'll even make it to the start line, all that training (probably too much shoulder bike carrying) has damaged the cartlidge between the discs of my neck so I haven't been able to ride or train at all for nearly 3 weeks now. Last physio session is only a few days from the start so things aren't looking good.