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Katie Mackay, partnered with Arthur Jones, recently completed the Lake District Classic Rock Challenge, becoming the first woman to finish in under 24 hours. Katie led every pitch and recorded a total time of 23:28:46. The challenge combines 34 miles of running between 15 multipitch Classic Rock routes, involving 70 pitches of climbing from VDiff to VS, and 4300m of ascent. In short: it's really, really tough. But just how tough? We found out...

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Great stuff!  

Nice one!

That's insane. I couldnt survive a day sitting watching telly on that amount of food. Doing that much exercise on that little is mind blowing.

Awesome effort.

Inspiring stuff; she comes over as such an Everywoman, although clearly she isn’t. And what a great picture of Scafell.

jcm

Well done, great effort. North Wales awaits you.

She's a proper star with no ego and a genuine old school love of climbing. Well done Katie, its a long road since that first time we did Little Cham together.

And after so little sleep - they started the 24hr challenge at 10.20pm, having presumably already been awake for an entire day.