Keri Wallace Takes Female FKT for the Tranter’s Winter Round

Up in the snowy Scottish Highlands, ultrarunner Keri Wallace of Ballachulish recently became the female record holder for the winter Tranter’s Round. 

The Tranter’s Round takes place in the highlands of Scotland with a start and end point of the youth hostel at Glen Nevis. The Tranter’s Round is named after Philip Tranter, who first completed it in 1964 and follows 59km over a 6,100m (20,000ft) ascent. 

The route traverses 18 of the Munros plus 1 further mountain (Sgorr an Iubhair – delisted as a Munro in 1997), and these include all of the Mamores, the Grey Corries, the Aonachs and then Carn Mor Dearg and Ben Nevis, Britain’s highest mountain.

Keri is also the founder of the company Girls Run Hills, which she started with co-founder Nancy Kennedy, based in Glencoe, Scotland, empowering women and helping them to gain the skills and confidence to run solo in the hills. Wallace kindly shared a deeper insight into how she got into running, her achievements and how it felt talking on the Tranter’s Round in winter.

“I’ve always run, but I didn’t take to running in hills until later in my life, and at the same time, I took up climbing.  When I first moved to Scotland, I was probably more of a rock climber than I was a runner.”