Edale Skyline Fell Race

Does anyone in the know have an eta on the results please ?

Three days since the race and still no results. :confused:

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Originally Posted by parky

Three days since the race and still no results. :confused:

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3 days?????? Eeeeeeee when I were a lad, before that there interweb thing, at the end of the race you had to address an envelope, leave a coin in and about six months later a photocopy of results would plop through the door. By that time, you had probably forgotten doing the race. Having said that, I have still kept volumes of the things (but now consigned to loft).

We are certainly well served now with both quick results and fantastic pics. They are sometimes online by the time I get back home after a race. It may make us a little blase about it.

I noted Sunday's results were displayed using the good old fashioned sticky labels on board method. I suspect someone may have to transcribe the details into electronic form before publishing.

I have also adusted to this new world instant results and confess to checking the dark peak web site on an hourly basis since monday afternoon. How often have you checked????????

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Originally Posted by Harry Hut

3 days?????? Eeeeeeee when I were a lad, before that there interweb thing, at the end of the race you had to address an envelope, leave a coin in and about six months later a photocopy of results would plop through the door. By that time, you had probably forgotten doing the race. Having said that, I have still kept volumes of the things (but now consigned to loft).

We are certainly well served now with both quick results and fantastic pics. They are sometimes online by the time I get back home after a race. It may make us a little blase about it.

I noted Sunday's results were displayed using the good old fashioned sticky labels on board method. I suspect someone may have to transcribe the details into electronic form before publishing.

I have also adusted to this new world instant results and confess to checking the dark peak web site on an hourly basis since monday afternoon. How often have you checked????????

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Showing your age, there, Harry!

By the way, well done in the race - I loved the look of surprise on your face when you were called up for your prize.

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Originally Posted by Harry Hut

I have also adusted to this new world instant results and confess to checking the dark peak web site on an hourly basis since monday afternoon. How often have you checked????????

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I've lost count!

I'd like to think that Dark Peak are running a sweep on the eventual number of website hits before the results appear.

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Originally Posted by Harry Hut

3 days?????? Eeeeeeee when I were a lad, before that there interweb thing, at the end of the race you had to address an envelope, leave a coin in and about six months later a photocopy of results would plop through the door. By that time, you had probably forgotten doing the race.

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Luxury !!

We used to have to wait 3 years until we were even allowed to ask
if the results were ready !
When they were we had to take our slates and scratch the results down with
our finger nails till our little fingers were bleeding.
If we got any wrong we had to rerun the race backwards with a sack over
our heads.

But we were happy :D

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Originally Posted by Alf

Luxury !!

We used to have to wait 3 years until we were even allowed to ask
if the results were ready !
When they were we had to take our slates and scratch the results down with
our finger nails till our little fingers were bleeding.
If we got any wrong we had to rerun the race backwards with a sack over
our heads.

But we were happy :D

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Don't agree with issuing results. Too professional.

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Originally Posted by Alf

Luxury !!

We used to have to wait 3 years until we were even allowed to ask
if the results were ready !
When they were we had to take our slates and scratch the results down with
our finger nails till our little fingers were bleeding.
If we got any wrong we had to rerun the race backwards with a sack over
our heads.

But we were happy :D

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Eh, you were lucky!!

We used to have to run the race 3 times, back to back, in our bare feet and wait 9 years before we could walk to Land's End, swim to Saint Agnes on the furthest flung Scilly Isle and politely hand in our stamp addressed envelope hoping that one day, before we reached the ripe old age of 90, the results would show up.... and then they'd spell your name wrong and add 15 minutes to your time.

But you try telling the youth of today :D

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Originally Posted by Oscar

I've lost count!

I'd like to think that Dark Peak are running a sweep on the eventual number of website hits before the results appear.

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Hope you extracated the car OK Oscar.
Sorry we weren't more helpful, my rust bucket would have been useless as a puller and you seemed to have plenty of volunteering pushers.
And that was on a dry day!

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Originally Posted by Purpleplodder

Hope you extracated the car OK Oscar.
Sorry we weren't more helpful, my rust bucket would have been useless as a puller and you seemed to have plenty of volunteering pushers.
And that was on a dry day!

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Cheers. Got out thanks to some pushing and then nifty reversing from one of my helpers. Thanks to everyone who lent a hand.