Driving! 9 hours... not looking forward to that, but it is two of us sharing the load... staying up in Scotland for a little holiday next week :)
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Driving! 9 hours... not looking forward to that, but it is two of us sharing the load... staying up in Scotland for a little holiday next week :)
just talked to Mathrhosgad about whos doing what,i think we`ll just have to pick straws unless anyone wants to do a particular leg.myself,i`m not too bothered which one i do.
it a same its not on the Saturday though,cos a pint afterwards would be nice but i suppose that some would find it hard to come all the way up on Friday evening.see you tomorrowQuote:
Originally Posted by IainR
What price Borrowdale?
Will they travel well or do they only perform in their own back yard?
Borrowdale - not a question of them not travelling well, often they just don't travel.
Mercia should have a strong team, and should have won last year! P&B will be strong, but rumoured to be without Hope the Elder & Heneghan, so maybe not their year. Dark Peak at full strength would be hard to stop, particularly with their nav strength. Shettleston?
I'm going:
1 - Mercia
2 - Dark Peak
3 - Borrowdale
4 - P&B
what no calder valley?Quote:
Originally Posted by chevinbytorchlight
http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-11546289
I think we are all a bit too close to the action, which is great fun and is a great event, not just to pause for thought. We are flying, and driving the length of the country to run a leg of 35/40 minutes. I still find it remarkable how little real action is being taken across the board, including us fell runners when faced with articles like this. For those of us who run across fields, on the hills , through the woods, of course, we don't need articles like this, we can see the damage done for ourselves. Its all become a bit too normal to see it.
Anyway. Have a great day.
Talking of flying, here's a fly-through the event courses...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cqFJl...layer_embedded
And Shettleston for the win!
Great little production.Quote:
Originally Posted by nearlyhopeless
Aye, you southerners might want to think about some Scottish teams too...
possibly...Quote:
Originally Posted by ChevinbyTorchlight
Maybe not in the top 4 but they won't be far off DP vets ????
I guess we'll need to wait some time before there are any comments on the relays today as everyone is still travelling home.
The relays take place tomorrow!
If there is reception, then I might post some results on here after each leg. I doubt there will be reception though...
Well, good luck to all those taking part tomorrow and I'll see ta there!
Leg 1
1 shettleston
2 dark peak +29
3 Edinburgh uni +1:04
4 pudsey & bramley +1:21
5 helm hill
6 Ambleside
7 Calder valley
8 bingley
Leg 2
1 shettleston
2 pudsey +50
3 edinburgh uni +1:01
4 dark peak
5 Calder valley
6 bingley
7 Ambleside
8 helm hill
up to date latest - we love it!:thumbup:
I'm gonna stick my neck out and say Edinburgh Uni could well be in the lead by the end of the Nav leg. No sign of Mercia yet?
Shettleston win
Calder Valley 5th
Good call Sir.:thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by MK NXN
Will they travel to Yorkshire to defend their title?:confused:
Men
1) Shettleston
2) Pudsey & Bramley
3) Dark Peak
4) Mercia
5) Calder Valley
6) Bingley
7) Edinburgh Uni
Women
1) HBT
2) Carnethy
3) Keswick
A big well done and thanks to Fife AC on behalf of Edinburgh University. It was a top notch event. And good to see Scotland taking the title in both races...
Report from graham bennison on the Fife AC website...
"Glasgow team Shettleston enjoyed unprecedented success over the weekend winning the UK Hill Running Relay Championships from Falkland only twenty-four hours after placing second at the English 6-stage road Relay Championships at Sutton Coldfield.
The elite of UK hill running gathered at Falkland for a testing event consisting of four stages over the Lomond Hills with the first and third stages run in pairs.
Shettleston duo Tom Owens and Jethro Lennox took an early lead over the opening ten mile stage coming back to the change-over at Falkland House playing fields twenty-nine seconds clear of Sheffield team Dark Peak with Edinburgh University twenty-five seconds back in third. Michael Gillespie who along with brother Matthew ran at Sutton Coldfield the previous day extended Shettleston’s advantage over stage two while Oleg Chepelin and Matt Sullivan increased the Glasgow teams lead to ninety seconds over the tough seven mile navigational third stage. Pudsey and Bramley came through over the final five mile stage but it was not enough to stop Shettleston anchored by Matthew Gillespie who came home to take the title sixty-six seconds clear in a total 3 hours 50 minutes 10 seconds. Dark Peak held third holding of the challenge of UK Hill Champion Tim Davies who brought Mercia up from 6th to 4th.
There was also a Scottish triumph in the women’s race as early leaders Carnethy Hill runners were slowly and surely hauled in by Hunters Bog Trotters finishing 39th overall ahead of Carnethy 46th and fast finishers Keswick in 47th.
Hosts Fife AC, who started planning for this event a year ago, not only celebrated excellent organisational success but claimed team awards as third over 50 veterans team and second over 40 women’s team.
Results: 1 Shettleston (J Lennox/T Owens, Michael Gillespie, Oleg Chepelin/M Sullivan, Matthew Gillespie) 3:50.10, 2 Pudsey & Bramley (G Pearce/D Kay, N Leigh, G Devine/I Nixon, D Hope) 3:51.16, 3 Dark Peak FR (R Street/O Johnson, R Little, R Findlay-Robin/N Northtrop, C Gilhooley) 3:51.40, 4 Mercia 3:53.46, 5 Bingley 3:55.31, 6 Calder Valley 3:57.00, 7 Edinburgh University 3:58.55, 8 Borrowdale veterans. 3:58.50, 9 Mynydd Du MR 4:11.27, 10 Ambleside 4:16.32 11 Dark Peak veterans. 4:19.13, 12 Carnethy HR 4:20.01, 13 Keswick 4:21.41, 14 Northumberland FR 4:22.58, 15 Eryri H. 4:24.06…17 Clayton-le-Moors 3rd veterans. 4:27.00, 34 Dark Peak 1st over 50. 4:49.34, 44 Carnegie 5:01.58, 49 Fife AC 3rd over 50. 5:06.47, 59 Fife AC over 40. 5:16.00, 61 Clayton-le-Moors 3rd over 50. 5:16.33, 73 Dundee Hawkhill 5:36.24, 79 Lomond HR 5:39.21.
Women. 1 Hunters Bog Trotters (M Wright/C Gordon, E Wardlaw, B Curtis/S O’Neill, E McKechanie) 4:58.16, 2 Carnethy Hr (A Mudge//J Mykura, J Anderson, J Higginbottom/J Paris, F Mackinnon) 5:04.09, 3 Keswick ( C Evans/J Carter J Gillyon, H Winskill/S Bailey, P Maddams) 5:05.50, 4 Kendal 5:05.57, 5 Ilkley 5:07.22, 5 Dark Peak veterans. 5:10.15, 6 Ochil HR 5: 21.25, 7 Edinburgh Univ. 5:23.46, 8 Dark Peak 5:25.04, 9 Eryri 5:53.51, 10 Durham FR 5:34.23, 11 Mercia 5:35.14, 12 Fife Ac 2nd veterans. 5:35.38…17 Clayton-le-Moors 3rd veterans. 6:01.47, 19 Fife AC 6:11.39."
Full results would be good - any links yet?
Just got back from a fab weekend with Tea & Cake (thanks for driving all that way pal, you're a star). We ran leg 1 but would be very interested to know the distance and ascent, did anyone take their Garmin? It was a blooming tough leg! We predicted we could do it in 2 hours and came in at 1:59:40 so not a bad guess.
Blimey WP - gone are the days when I used to take a stamped addressed envelope to races for the results!Quote:
Originally Posted by Witton Park
...and get excited when postie finally delivered them!!Quote:
Originally Posted by Welsh Harrier
Nice to meet you and Helen again today.Quote:
Originally Posted by Mrs Stagger
Leg 2 was 5.1 miles and 1550 feet.
Thanks to the organisers for a great event.
Heard you'd been a bit BLUE today Swoop:wink:Quote:
Originally Posted by Swoop
Hi SwoopQuote:
Originally Posted by Swoop
What did your Garmi say for your journey home? Sounded like a good day out! First Relays I've not been to since that epic at Edale with the mega mass start for the final leg!
My vest has got a nasty yellow stain on it!
Phew... well, I hope everyone enjoyed their day.
Our estimates, the result of making measurements from a 1:25k map, were 16.5km & 1000m ascent (10.3 miles and 3283ft in old money).Quote:
We ran leg 1 but would be very interested to know the distance and ascent
Oh c'mon... Please give Martin a chance to get home from Fife and update the SportIdent site:)Quote:
Full results would be good - any links yet?
I've got a print out of interim results as they stood at about 15:30. Rest assured, once the full results are published I'll add a link here, unless someone gets there first (I'm driving most of the day Monday).
But you might be interested in fastest legs (men):
Leg 1 Jethro Lennox, Tom Owens (Shets) 1:17:46
Leg 2 Jonathan Brownlee (Bingley) 39:25
Leg 3 Rhys Findlay-Robin, Neil Northrop (Mercia) 1:07:26
Leg 4 nick Swinburn (NFR) 38:09
I could look up fastest leg times for the women but this'll require rather more scrutiny of the results and frankly, having partaken of something alcoholic, may not be 100% accurate.:D Tomorrow then.
Should anyone wonder why the mass start didn't take place at 15:00 as advertised, I didn't see the point in keeping the 20 or Leg 4 cold-looking runners waiting any longer than was strictly necessary. And if the leg 4 runners were looking cold, pity the marshalls up on East Lomond.
Apologies to any teams who wanted/expected to hand over to their last runner and missed out. I hope can you understand why we brought the start time forward a little.
Bill
That should be Graham Gristwood and some other dude for Murcia.
Rhys and Neil ran for Dark Peak
Thanks to the organisers and marshalls for helping put on a grand day :-) Durham Fell Runners had 3 teams entered this year, not bad for a club with with only 60 odd members. The senior mens team I was running leg 4 for ended up placing 27th, a fair effort which we were happy with, although a top 20 spot was our goal. These events make you realise the strength and amount of good good fell running clubs out there.
On a personal note, I ran full of pain killers as I havent been able to walk without a limp for 2 weeks (so havent ran), and they did an amazing job in masking the pain, but now theyve wore off, my leg is wrecked :/// The solo leg was a great route I thought, I was loving the flat section out the back, no one was going to catch me on that, took 4 places on my leg so I was pleased :-)
Thanks again to all involved in organising the event, job well done :-)
Back home now after a five hour trip. What a great weekend. Jos Naylor award on Saturday night in Wasdale then played my part in bringing Mercia V50 team home for the silver Medal.
I thought the whole event from start to finish was extremley well organised and the Lomond hills an ideal venue. Just celerbrating with a few bottles of Abbott...
Thanks to all at Mercia for great organising and Support.
I've never even seen those days ;)Quote:
Originally Posted by Welsh Harrier
Unfortunately I was unable to attend, so just keen to see how my troops performed.
Noticed the National Road Relays all on by tea time the same day - Sportident has some catching up to do on www.race-results.co.uk and the mighty Graham Fecitt :)
Anyway - here they are - not too bad ;)
http://www.sportident.co.uk/results/2010/UKAFellRelays/
Here are a few photos from the Falkland Relays:
http://picasaweb.google.com/chrisups...ndUKHillRelays
Good weekend. Well organised.
Wasn't sure about the venue but gave some good legs and good fell running terrain. Ran legs 2 and 4 the day before, nice running, good mix of terrain. Did the Nav leg, was OK, reckon we lost most of our time on the last two stages, decided to traverse 5>6 rather than going by the track, risk that didn't pay off by the looks of things, and then didn't know that we could have been more direct on the route off from 6 to the finish, we almost reversed our route in..
Nice photos Chris, good to see you getting a shot of our maverick (direct) line from the start...
Funniest moment of the day for me was when the tannoy announcer said that Edinburgh Uni Leg 1 runners were just entering the finish field, at which point their Leg 2 runner made a rapid dash from the marquee at the top of the field and just made it to the change-over point in time.
Everyone must be looking during their lunchbreak - I can't get on the site!Quote:
Originally Posted by Witton Park