Sunk into the gnarled caldera of an ancient volcano, the city of Edinburgh is teeming with endurance opportunities. Its immediate and neighbouring landscape provides a full range of terrain and facilities for solid endurance training, matched by a depth of hospitality you would expect from a capital city. Edinburgh erupts each summer in August when it becomes the global focus for independent performing artists and enthusiasts, while the beautiful city lights help bring a throng of tourists to the city during the winter months. Home to locals and monkish mountaineers, the confines of the Scottish outdoors present a place far . . .