Leg 1, done & dusted, time to relax now :)
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Leg 1, done & dusted, time to relax now :)
Awesome weather, a little too hard underfoot for my tiny hobbits feet with lots of cheese grater turf and icy patches, well done all who ran.
Amazing value brunch back at start: Hot Hollands pies 50p, Muffins 50p and all the tea you can drink for free. Brilliant!
Big thanks to organisers.
Horwich won.
Salford second.
Quality day that.
Slight error on leg 1 cost us a bunch of places but not to worry. The ice certainly made things interesting....if you didnt attempt to atleast draw some blood you didnt try hard enough.:p
http://www.flickr.com/photos/chr1sg/...7623319319898/
Pics from leg 3 at the Shepherd's Rest Inn. Missed the first few ?? teams passing.
Calder Valley looked to have 3rd place sewn up when I saw them.:)Quote:
Originally Posted by Roadrunner
saw you at start Al, hope you had a good skate out. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by Al Fowler
Thanks for a great event Rossy - we couldn't get a full B out in the end due to injuries, so me and a debutant had a potter round leg 1 then followed the race.
Horwich
Salford
Calder Valley
Blackburn H
Rossy
Clayton
I think in the top places.
John Sutton went straight to Casualty after a fall on the big descent on Leg 1 - battled on to the finish but probably cost us a few minutes.
He's reported to be OK.
Deserves a lot of credit for keeping going in what must have been severe pain.
Thanks for refusing to lend me a safety pin on the grounds they were your lucky pins!Quote:
Originally Posted by Al Fowler
Were they lucky because your partner did not beat you up despite the fact you tried to finish without him and had to be cautioned to wait by the marshalls? If he was the navigator with that much space between you both no wonder you went wrong.:rolleyes:
:D Nobody can have my lucky safety pins.Quote:
Originally Posted by Antisocial
I did wait for him as and when i was asked to do so thankyou very much. He was not navigating...neither of us knew were we where going.:D
Well thanks to you, cos I did not have enough pins the resulting drag form the number flapping must have lost me at least 20 places.Quote:
Originally Posted by Al Fowler
I will accept any legal action you wish to take out on me due to the lost time.:DQuote:
Originally Posted by Antisocial
It was good to see you by the way.:D
And good to meet Hursty the giant!
Well done Horwich!
I saw you finishing your leg, sorry I didn't get chance to speak, we were just waiting to set off on leg 2. We were very very cold.Quote:
Originally Posted by mudlugger
Excellent food, I suppose that's the advantage of getting up early and being on leg 1!
hmm there were a few poeple on leg 5 unsure where they were going as well,Quote:
Originally Posted by Al Fowler
but Al you Fowled up there, you should know you need to read the map!! after all did you not put a thread on this forum about it map reading?? :confused:
was alright today
Bad news for the guy from Darwen who slipt on the ice on leg 5 and broke his leg!
Aye, Big Kev broke his ankle not long after setting off on Leg 5. I've not heard how he is but it sounded a bad 'un.
Congrats to Lefty and his team for organising such a fantastic event from all at Darwen Dashers.
[QUOTE=Al Fowler;301911]Quality day that.
The ice certainly made things interesting....
It certainly did and it gave me an idea for a new television series: pair up celebrities with fell runners for...
"Celebrity strictly come fell running on ice". I'm off to contact Connie Huq's agent.:)
[QUOTE=johnmc;301988]connie huq would keep me entertained on a fell raceQuote:
Originally Posted by Al Fowler
Think we had the best running conditions on leg 3hree...fair few crashes on leg one and watching the leg fivers finish,some casualty's needing treatment.Sorry to hear of someone breaking a leg/ankle.
I am gutted didn't do this this year looks like its been a great day.
Roll on next year I suppose:cool:
What a cracking day. Thanks to everyone involved in the organisation. Hope for a speedy recovery for the injured Dasher
Great day out today, hope all those with scrapes, brakes, sprains and cuts soon recover. My partner took a tumble on the ice at the start of leg 5 just before we turn right before the tunnel. MrsT took a tumble on Leg 1 on the way upto Deerplay nasty gash on the Knee. In the true spirit of fell running kept going. Needed stiches at Accy Vic in the afternoon:eek:
Some pictures from Leg 1:
http://picasaweb.google.com/TommoPix...RelayLeg12010#
Thanks to the organisers & marshalls for another great race.
Cracking day out today. Thanks to the organisers for all their hard work! The ice was bad in places, hope the injured runners recover soon.
Sorry to see so many scrapes and scratches as well as a couple of more serious injuries.......some of those icy patches were pretty lethal catching out even the most experienced. Hope everone enjoyed their run though, it turned out to be a cracking day and a good race up front. 1 new leg record on leg 1. A few complaints about shortcutting which I am sure were innocent errors rather than blatent cheating possibly down to the fact that fewer people were able to recce their leg due the conditions on the route prior to the race. Big thanks to everyone that helped, 5 fell races in one day takes some sorting.Results are up on the website although they are subject to scrutiny and may be updated later.
I have a couple of ideas learned from today to make improvements for next year, if anyone has any constructive comments please let us know.
We had a team in front of us who cut short despite the formal route being clearly written on the instructions, they seemed pretty clear where they were going. Neither did they fasten any gates behind them despite us being a couple of minutes behind. It was reported - its a shame if no action was taken as it was fairly blatant.Quote:
Originally Posted by Lefty
I noticeyou had a bad run...really made my dayQuote:
Originally Posted by Antisocial
[QUOTE=Runway;302027]
Some picture from Leg 1:
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Some great pix. :)
You even caught me using my husky method to climb that last hill. Seriously, it was the only way I could keep up with my partner eh. :p
see pic 337
A big thanks to the organisers. Think it was the first relay I've done for quite a few years and enjoyed it immensely - not sure if my partner would agree as it was his introduction to hard out fell running and whereas I've been getting in plenty of 11 milers over Winter Hill, his training has been much more speed focussed and the second half of the race (and the run back to the car) were a bit of hard work for him. But I'm sure he'll back for more (and being much younger than me will no doubt leave me standing soon).
Nice to meet you as well mate!Quote:
Originally Posted by Al Fowler
Some good pics!
Well it wasn't a Fell Pony team:pQuote:
Originally Posted by Antisocial
I had a great run thank you. My partner is not quite as fit at the moment, though I am sure that will change - it usually does.Quote:
Originally Posted by TurboTom
Any reports of shortcutting reported to me are investigated. I did get a couple of reports which I have looked into. As always we have to speak to the team who have been reported as taking a shortcut and dont always take the word of the team reporting them as in the past there have been believe it or not malicious reports. On most occasions the shortcutting is a genuine mistake and the transgessors have been contrite. Time has been added where time has been gained by any team by not following the correct route. As we say in the race details " The route is definitive ie there is no route choice. Shortcutting or deviation from the proper route causes resentment and ill feeling by other teams and should be avoided at all costs "Quote:
Originally Posted by Antisocial
Thanks to all organisers & marshalls, we had a great day out. Ran leg 2 & the conditions were good, other than the bits of treacherous ice here & there. Always nice to have fog going up Gorple, means you can't see the top & just keep plugging away until you get to the gate. Then cleared up into a fabulous day, views were great.
Strangely we ran the race 11 minutes quicker than last year but finished 1 place lower down. Everyone must be getting better!
Hope you had a good race L.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mrs Stagger
:)
Yes, many thanks to everyone who made yesterday possible.
Anyone else walking like John Wayne today? Thrashing down those hills on hard, frozen ground in shoes that have little cushioning is hard on the legs!
Saw one team taking a long cut on leg 5. They must have missed the sharp right turn up and ended up on the corner T junction by the loos at Healey Dell, then had to back track up the road toward Whitworth.
Some pics.