Enjoyed the day, but it was a bit of drama for me .... was late getting there, parked at Tilberthwaite and ran to Little Langdale, obviously the delayed start made that a bit of wasted effort! Recent recces helped and I got some good lines down off Swirl How and down Wetside Edge, but took a terrific fall in the boggy bit before the road crossing - no damage done but I was truly plastered in the mucky stuff
Hit the cut-off in about 1:30 and was slowly picking up pace as we dropped down off Blisco, but unfortunately I slipped on some wet rock and took a really nasty fall, which laid my shin open to the bone. A slow descent down to Blea Tarn and most of the bleeding had stopped by then so I decided to crack on and finish the race, I would like to apologise to anyone who heard me swearing and cursing, I was a bit mad with myself. Think I finished around 3:10(ish), so am a bit fed-up, am sure I could have dipped under 3 hours had it not been for this slight impediment. I was one of the "walking wounded" at end, I'm very grateful to the kind St Johns folks who patched me up.
I had the pleasure of some neat TCP squirted into the hole by a friend (a doctor) before I set off for home, then sat for 5 hours in A & E before getting home around 0200 with an even bigger hole in my leg. They x-rayed it and found some bits of cumbrian fell under the skin, so cut all the jagged edges of skin off then scrubbed it out, quite character-building I thought. Feel like I've been steam-rollered today and have a codeine-hangover from all the painkillers I was given, but no real harm done, most of the swelling has gone down. Think Whernside next Saturday is out of the question though.