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Runner stops ultramarathon to save lost dog, ends up on podium

A mountain rescue volunteer who says she was ‘hallucinating’ as she entered the final stretch of a 160-mile race stopped to save a ‘crying’ lost dog in the middle of the night.

Clëo Bishop-Bolt was taking part in the Montane Winter Spine Race when she came across the dog near the summit of Cheviot, Northumberland’s highest peak.

Ms Bishop-Bolt, a member of the Northumberland National Park Mountain Rescue Team (NNPMRT), said it took her a while to ‘realise it was real’ due to her exhaustion.

She took the dog to a rescue hut before finishing the race in third place with a time of 88 hours.

Runner stops ultramarathon to save lost dog, ends up on podium
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Ms Bishop-Bolt said: ‘As I was coming up to Auchope Cairn I started to hallucinate.

“I was seeing faces in the mud, I was exhausted.” “I had done it before, during the summer race, so I knew how to handle it.”, told Clëo to the BBC.

“All of a sudden this dog appeared alongside me and ran past me in the dark.

“I could hear the poor animal whimpering and crying, it was so cold up there he must have been freezing.”

The dog didn’t have a collar, so she and fellow competitor Paula Dimond attached a jumper to use as a lead.

After contacting race HQ, officials met them at the nearest rescue shelter.

Runner stops ultramarathon to save lost dog, ends up on podium
NNPMRT

The dog was then collected by the local estates team and taken down the valley to be reunited with his owner.

Ms Bishop-Bolt was running the race from Hadraw in North Yorkshire to Kirk Yetholm in the Scottish Borders to raise money for NNPMRT.

She said: “I was so thrilled to finish the race, it was a fantastic experience.

“I’ve met so many inspiring competitors and race staff.”

NNPMRT team leader Jamie Pattison said he was “incredibly proud” of his colleague.

“Not only did she complete a brutal mountain race, raising money for our team, but she did it while preserving the finest traditions of mountain rescue,” he said.

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