15/09/2026
Another former BCer doing amazing ( and quite frankly, bonkers) things.
Lucy Gossage is the first woman on record to run the 268-mile Pennine Way in under three days.
The British oncologist and five-time Ironman champion finished at Edale early Monday morning after 70 hours, 47 minutes and 15 seconds on England's oldest National Trail, running north to south from Kirk Yetholm on the Scottish border.
She left at 8 a.m. on Friday. She was done before breakfast on Monday.
Her time is almost two hours faster than Anna Troup's 72:46:37 from August 2021. Sabrina Verjee held the record before Troup with 74:28:46 in 2020. Nobody in the women's field had gone inside three days before.
Gossage had not planned to be on the Pennine Way at all in September. Her original entry was the Northern Traverse. When that race was called off, she pivoted to the FKT instead.
She has been on this trail before. Earlier this year she won the Winter Spine, the 268-mile January race up the same route, in 87:41:38. In June 2025 she won the South Downs Way 100 in a course record 16:30:35.
"Too tired to know what to think yet," she said at the finish. "Other than that I have amazing friends."
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