Just announced - Parking in Hodge Close Quarry, extra £2 for parking, and a 25 minute walk to the start!
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Just announced - Parking in Hodge Close Quarry, extra £2 for parking, and a 25 minute walk to the start!
Bugger. Also a 25-minute walk back at the end!!! Wonder if there's anywhere to stash kit at the start ....
Bugger. It has been particularly monsoon like up here in't last week and I was wondering if it would be a hodge close year. The walk back last year nearly killed me off.
Still well excited bout the race tho...
Looking forward to it.
Me too :)
Hi,
Its my first post on the forum. If there is anyone driving to the race from kendal that could give me a lift I'd be really grateful. My usual running friend isn't running at the weekend and I don't drive. I could contribute to petrol costs and be wherever is convenient for pick-up.
Thanks
joe
The weather's looking sufficiently bad that I may give this ago. Especially as we're staying in Little Langdale anyway (it was meant to be a climbing weekend, that plan's floating off into the distance).
I feel it might be a tad damp. Just had a monsoon over here in Harrogate ..... I will be packing spare kit in dry bags tonight!!
Mountain weather forecast says heavy showers, max winds 30mph, but nothing too terrible, Should be fun.:thumbup:
Ahh...........there it is. It's taken me ages to find this thread ~ someone has posted it under Long Distance Challanges
:confused:
Yes, I know it's an 'A Long' but I wouldn't class it as a long distance challenge.........unless Selwyn's altered the route dramatically.
I'll be there again this year for my 23rd consecutive race.
only 23? novice
Do we know how the runner is who badly broke his lower leg in last years race is doing? Hope he is making a good recovery.
Well that was wet .....
Thats great to hear, thanks.
Great you've all survived. Who won?
Very painful, had a shocker coming of Pike O'Blisco, now have a very bruised and swelled right arse cheek. Can just about walk.
Great race mind! Looking forward to having a better go at in the years ahead.
any results...?
any results
http://fellrunningbriefs.blogspot.com/2011/09/lakeland-classic-three-shires.html
exclusive!!! news just in!
Cracking race today really enjoyed it even though I was slipping and sliding all over the place :-)
272s I wore were great, until they came into contact with wet rock! But then what does grip on such surface?
Great run today, thanks to all the marshalls who stood out in the pissing rain and the St Johns Ambulance crew who were patching up the many walking wounded (one woman sat in the landrover with a horrible gash across her shin, anyone know how she fared?)
The weather cleared out for all the tricky nav around Blisco, I blew up a bit at the bottom, but crammed a packet of glucose tablets in my cakehole which seemed to do the trick. The fact that I managed a monster pb of 23 mins is more a reflection of my pitiful performance last year.
Will be back next year for more!:thumbup:
The lady with the gashed leg was my clubmate Gaynor, she was ok but we dropped her at the hospital on the way home (where she was met by her own support crew) as she was going to need sone cleaning / patching up! Will see her tomorrow so will know better then how she's doing.
Really enjoyed the race but struggled badly with cramp on the way up to Lingmoor. For what it's worth my Mudclaws were great, except on wet rock (which my sore / bruised arse proves!) but as someone else said - what is?!
Cheers Starsky, glad to hear she was ok, she seemed to be bearing it very well, hope she can be back running soon.
I also started to get pangs of cramp up Lingmoor, managed to fend it off with nuun & gels, and my walsh pb elite extremes performed flawlessly, I just steered away from as much wet rock as I could.
I had Salomons on. On the plus side they were very comfy and they don't allow any movement of my foot when contouring but not quite as grippy as mudclaws when descending on the sodden grass. Only ended on my backside once which was less than many.
i had mi mudclaws on fell once gashed my hand
got stuck in a bog n went over does that count as a fall (guess it does)
n many near falls
is this why its called fell racing!
thanks marshalls n helpers
p.s did anyone crooss the ford at the start looked quite deep!
Great race. Thanks to all who organised and marshalled! Enjoyed the man's commentary as we were queueing to register. One less entrant than last year and he says he puts it down to the bad weather!
I always hear that fell runners are a friendly bunch so I thought I'd approach one of the better ones, Carl Bell, when I saw him hanging around at the end. I said 'How did you do?' And he says, 'Yeah, not bad', or something like that. We spoke for a bit and it was only later when I looked at the results board that I saw that he'd won! Nothing he said suggested he'd done so well. Well done!
Hardly looked up enough to appreciate the views, but did glance back when I was near the top of Wetherlam and it was amazing.
Great day.
I walked the route in reverse yesterday, some of you may have seen me with my camera.
Anyway Ive just done a very short Blog of a few short video clips I made. They are not very good quality.
For some reason they were loaded twice which I can't alter, count down and start on the 7th one.
The clips are all on Wetside Edge heading for the 3 Shires Stone.
The first is of the leaders I think and the last is is of the very last three runners at that stage.
http://3shiresfellracewalk.blogspot.com/
Dave.