The worst and the best in 2008

[DanAzz]

Best: Moving to the Peak District
Worst: Only getting in 3 races this year

[Al Fowler]

Best: Winning the Bullock Smithy Hike
Worst: Pulling out injured at the Calderdale Hike

But do LDWA count as a win. If they do, I won the 'Bottoms Up' (half-route).

[DazTheSlug]

Worst: nothing really worth mentioning... maybe missing out on running the Penmaenpool 10M trail race with Lady Slugge - had been really looking forward to it, but kiboshed due to collapse of baby-sitting arrangements, plus appalling weather.

Best: far too many to sensibly pick one, so:
Race-Related, a) almost feeling like I knew what I was doing at Cracken Edge.
Race-Related, b) breaking into the top 70% of finishers for the first time (at Lantern Pike)
Non-Race-Related, a) on a solo BG Leg4 recce, arriving at Dore Head for the first time in my life, and laughing out loud at how awesome the views were in ALL directions
Non-Race-Related, b) on a recce of BG Leg1 (with Irish Carol - Hi Carol!), arriving on Mungrisdale Common for the first time in my life, and realising why Wainwright had put it in his guides

[stevefoster]

Best: Completing the 3ppp Cyclocross in memory of my late Dad with tears in my eyes, finishing 28 fell races as opposed to finishing 4 the year before, all the friends i've met this year (including that Coniston Old Man run, Al), Mini Merrylegs winning his first ever fell race
Worst: Depression, personal problems, other folks personal problems, that fact that i ain't stopped smoking yet
All in all, a dammed good year really

[Toreador]

Best: The OMM

Worst: The OMM

[Darth domain]

worst
being in the car accident and having to miss a few runs including the mini mountain marathon!

best
becoming a new fell runner and in the space of a few months meeting some great peeps and running with them,increasing my fitness, not to mention doing the pendle tour as my first long race

[AJF]

Best: The OMM

Worst: The OMM

Best - Rab Mountain Marathon, great location, great weather and my first ever win at anything (that wasn't a luck of the draw competition) or Ennerdale Horseshoe. What an amazing route of a race! Breathtaking in more ways than one. Smiling for weeks afterwards.

Worst - Dropping out of HPM with a knackered ankle (only DNF), following months off in a cast followed by probably coming back a bit fast and still having a dodgy ankle 9 months later.

[Leith Hill lady]

Worst - realising I still had washing up liquid in my camelback whilst doing the buttermere skyline in august.

Best - completing my 1st marathon, Beachy Head, in under 4 hrs, in one piece. And the subsequent pb's that have followed. (If any 'newbies' out there are toying with the idea of a marathon, just do it!)

Great thread.... keep them coming

[Deejay]

Best Doing the Duddon Valley Race, my first long as it was 6 miles further than I'd run anywhere ever before.
Worst Heck, nothing really, just having to work I suppose

[Fleeter]

Best-The Ben Race,i ran i think the best i have ever done in a race and it made me realise that training can get you faster,going to put that into good use this coming year ,after my winter break that is

And also being a part of a succesfull BG attempt and joining a club



Worst-Dropping out of Mourne Peaks race due to ankle going,but the piss up more than made up for it