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    Quote Originally Posted by Tindersticks View Post
    Many thanks to Chris and the lovely Ratti helpers. The food stations were a welcome sight for much needed fluid and energy, the bananas at Cockley really hit the spot. Good to see plenty familiar faces and the high fives along the Coniston ridge certainly lifted the spirits. Excellent write up Tim and thanks for leading the way off Scafell, what a brilliant route. A day to remember in amazing landscape with almost perfect weather... The company wasn't bad either, cheers Mark you're a star.
    Just want to echo those words. Mrs P and myself had a great day, it was our first OCT and we really enjoyed it, thanks to all in Achilli Ratti, superb!
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    Many Thanks to Chris and all the similarly cheery marshals for such a superb event - this is what fell racing is all about as far as I'm concerned.
    glorious weather enhanced the beauty of the route and the Lakes in general - enjoyment guaranteed!
    Thanks & Congratulations to Manhar - a model partner - good company, cheerful & positive throughout
    finally my anal-retentive attention to a detailed schedule paid dividends (I knew it would one day ) as our catch-phrase as we passed through each CP at/near the back was "We're pacing ourselves!" - this paid off in spades when we beat the cut-off at Cockley Beck by the handsome margin of 1 minute!
    being rewarded with the prospect of the climb up Grey Friar soon wiped the smiles off our faces though!
    thankfully we didn't need to cut things quite as fine getting in to the finish and clocked a comfortable 11:51
    I am wearing the T-shirt now
    I have no plans to take it off
    Scramble the rock face through the glare of morning sun — to run

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    Quote Originally Posted by DazTheSlug View Post
    Many Thanks to Chris and all the similarly cheery marshals for such a superb event - this is what fell racing is all about as far as I'm concerned.
    glorious weather enhanced the beauty of the route and the Lakes in general - enjoyment guaranteed!
    Thanks & Congratulations to Manhar - a model partner - good company, cheerful & positive throughout
    finally my anal-retentive attention to a detailed schedule paid dividends (I knew it would one day ) as our catch-phrase as we passed through each CP at/near the back was "We're pacing ourselves!" - this paid off in spades when we beat the cut-off at Cockley Beck by the handsome margin of 1 minute!
    being rewarded with the prospect of the climb up Grey Friar soon wiped the smiles off our faces though!
    thankfully we didn't need to cut things quite as fine getting in to the finish and clocked a comfortable 11:51
    I am wearing the T-shirt now
    I have no plans to take it off
    Well Done Daz and Manhar, bit of a climb is Grey Friar eh
    Hills and Guinness!

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    Very disappointing behaviour by 4 runners caught on camera climbing a fence.
    Look at the height of the fence in the first shot and then how they left it.

    http://www.athletesinaction.co.uk/oct-zoom-67


    Here are our 4 rule breakers
    http://www.athletesinaction.co.uk/oct-zoom-70

    Note the height of the fence now

    http://www.athletesinaction.co.uk/oct-zoom-71

    Appalling behaviour not needed in fell running.
    Last edited by Stagger; 19-05-2014 at 04:35 PM.

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    Quote Originally Posted by DazTheSlug View Post
    Many Thanks to Chris and all the similarly cheery marshals for such a superb event - this is what fell racing is all about as far as I'm concerned.
    glorious weather enhanced the beauty of the route and the Lakes in general - enjoyment guaranteed!
    Thanks & Congratulations to Manhar - a model partner - good company, cheerful & positive throughout
    finally my anal-retentive attention to a detailed schedule paid dividends (I knew it would one day ) as our catch-phrase as we passed through each CP at/near the back was "We're pacing ourselves!" - this paid off in spades when we beat the cut-off at Cockley Beck by the handsome margin of 1 minute!
    being rewarded with the prospect of the climb up Grey Friar soon wiped the smiles off our faces though!
    thankfully we didn't need to cut things quite as fine getting in to the finish and clocked a comfortable 11:51
    I am wearing the T-shirt now
    I have no plans to take it off
    Sounds great mate. Glad you had a good day.....I can't say I am not jealous.

    Hope to get one of those shirts of my own sometime, though, as with all races, I have seen it run in HORRENDOUS weather and thought,"I may be out in this, but I don't have hours and hours of it left!"

    Well done to all who started it.
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    Quote Originally Posted by Stagger View Post
    Very disappointing behaviour by 4 runners caught on camera climbing a fence.
    Look at the height of the fence in the first shot and then how they left it.

    http://www.athletesinaction.co.uk/oct-zoom-67


    Here are our 4 rule breakers
    http://www.athletesinaction.co.uk/oct-zoom-70

    Note the height of the fence now

    http://www.athletesinaction.co.uk/oct-zoom-71

    Appalling behaviour not needed in fell running.
    It looks like they missed the small single-track path branching down and right off the main wide path, realising there mistake later (like most of us ) didn't want to back track, or maybe didn't even know where they had gone wrong. So decided to cut down and over the fence. It's unfortunate that more than one team went wrong.
    I was following a team that were debating going straight on at that same point, and without intervention may have ended up in the same predicament.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Stagger View Post
    Very disappointing behaviour by 4 runners caught on camera climbing a fence.
    Look at the height of the fence in the first shot and then how they left it.

    http://www.athletesinaction.co.uk/oct-zoom-67


    Here are our 4 rule breakers
    http://www.athletesinaction.co.uk/oct-zoom-70

    Note the height of the fence now

    http://www.athletesinaction.co.uk/oct-zoom-71

    Appalling behaviour not needed in fell running.
    A better view of what looks like two of the guys on photo no.74

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    Quote Originally Posted by zephr View Post
    What a superb race, as ever.
    blog is up, a wordy blog with a surprising amount of pictures... I just couldnt help myself on the way around...
    http://testedtodestruction.blogspot....tops-2014.html
    Excellent write up Zephr. I too did it last year so it was nice to see the whole route in it's full glory. Might as well have run round with a blind fold on last year! Didn't see a thing.
    Linda Murgatroyd, Calder Valley Fell Runners

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    Quote Originally Posted by Baggins View Post
    It was me who passed you on the road down Wrynose I was having a bit of a day like you I should have brought my camera
    Told my partner I was wanting to do 7 min/miles down the road earlier on in the race and he reminded me at three shire stone so had to go for it! did sub 6 mins in the end
    There will be no time for photos next time. We will beast each other next year, now we've both been on the receiving end once. I'm willing to bet you won't repeat that decent from 3 shires next year. Hopefully we will both be too knackered. Still it was a good effort though.

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    Not to condone this in anyway but wouldn't it be better to identify the culprits offline and speak to their club captain?

    Posting these distant images online only puts on record the actions of the minority but paints us all in a bad light.

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