Brilliant time, Shame it wasnt a minute quicker though, you realise youll have to go again now!!:thumbup:
Good to see you Rachel and Chris, you and the gang make it very entertaining!! See you next time!
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Brilliant time, Shame it wasnt a minute quicker though, you realise youll have to go again now!!:thumbup:
Good to see you Rachel and Chris, you and the gang make it very entertaining!! See you next time!
Thanks everyone am back at home now gonna pedal down pub and enjoy a nice ale or 10 and LOTS of food !
Rachel told you I wouldn't beat your time but couldn't let you have bragging rights
never here the end of it he he.
I started on a 22 hour Schedule for legs 1 & 2 then uped it to a 20 for the rest.
It all went ok really leg 1 was spot on time wise no dramas apart from Pat fiddling with his touch that decided to stop working.
Leg 2 stomped up Clough Head arriving 8 minuters up then knocked a further 18 mins by Dunmail. The views and sunrise was truley awesome on this leg we could see a cloud inversion over Eden vallay and Gasmere way
Leg 3 started off good up Steel Fell (now on 20 hour Schedule) knocked all them off on time, Rossett Pike and Bow Fell they was hard but I had a some one on Rossett with a brew and a camping meal (full breakfast) I still kept on time untill Esk Pike when I felt good and started to knock time off again. Just before Great End I had another stop with muller rice,cake,jafa cakes and plently of tea. Even with losing 10 mins on both these stops I still kept on time ! I dropped in to Wasdale making up about 10 mins on the leg and 38 in total.
Leg 4 was ok stuck to the timing all the way around same on Leg 5
Then the road this was utter Torture and it ****ing evil !
Finished in 20:56 Schedule was 21:26
I am a complete novice in the Lake District having only had a couple or runs up the Old Man when camping up their last year. Interesting first leg when my brand new Fenix HP11 would not work so crazily I set off up Skiddaw with out a light, luckily our weekend chef Steve was at the upper carpark so he gave me his light. The HP11 has four AA batteries and the springs for two of them are much shorted than the springs for the other two so do not hold the batteries tight enough. Has anybody else got this light are they the same?
I just do not have the downhill speed and after repacking my rucksack after digging out some food for Andy near the summit of Blencathra I shot off after the other three but they got far enought ahead of me that I did not see them turn right for Doddick so I continued on down Scales Fell only to see their lights off to my right. I ended up finishing 15 minutes after them, which I was discusted about.
A couple of hours sleep and the the great excitment at Wasdale as the good news about the peformance on leg 2 was known and a couple of pacers who cut Let 3 short let us know things were looking good on leg 3. Very enjoyable leg 4 then - Andy was tired but kept up a steady pace. Got to Great Gable to meet GeoffB who got there an hour earlier and spent that time getting a beautiful line sorted off Great Gable and abusing the 10 peaks challenge contenders who were only doing 10 summits in a day.
Andy has got to be more carefull about his emails as he was very wolly about Leg 5 support resulting in him having no support for it. So GeoffB and myself ended up finishing the thing with him. The 21 hrs was on so we could not let up. Martyn and Helen came up to meet us just before the church. The 21 hr was still "still on" and Martyn with a combination of elastic measures of time and distance and blatant lies kept Andy going we ran most of the way on the road and even had to up the pace from Portinscale (where we were joined for the run-in by Andy's mum) as we were starting to get tight. If Martyn was not there Geoff and I would have let Andy take it easy and probably finish 15 minutes later!
My first BG experience - what a great day out and a fanstastic group of people. Despite all the beer discussions, one bottle of beer got drank by GeoffB from the stash!! (I was in the pub having a few very nice pints)
Andy probably made it look too easy, and the weather conditions could not be less than 10 out of 10
Fantastic Andy, very well done!
Were they that blatant? :D Worth it I think. Well done Andy, wonderful effort.Quote:
Originally Posted by DrPatrickBarry
Andy - Congratulations on a great time - sounds like you nailed it.
You saw me on Bowfell on my first attempt in May which ended half way up Yewbarrow as I ran out of energy from being sick and not eating for a lot of it. Well followed in your footprints this weekend by starting second attempt at 7pm on Saturday and despite interesting conditions today - thick clag from Bowfell to Brandreth and really strong winds especially on legs 4 and 5 -finished in 22h 52m (following 23h schedule). Ecstatic as well as relieved that changes made after first attempt paid off.
See you at dinner next year.
Jon
GeoffB and I tried to do the Coledale horseshoe this morning and cut it short at the col the winds were so bad. We were saying that a BG today would be impossible, so veeeeeeery well done.Quote:
Originally Posted by tombsy
Luckily legs 1 and 2 were clear with only slight breeze. Would have been difficult setting off in poor conditions. Once half way round, not much choice but to get on with it (and helped having Kim Collison navving for legs 3 and 4 and not taking any nonsense from me).
Well done Tombsy, that wind and clag today made a Borrowdale recce tough enough nevermind a BGR, top effort.
At 7pm on Friday Simon Anderson (from Otley) set off in good conditions, he was going like a train on leg 2 and remained strong throughout, finishing in 22:33 (I think). Well done mate, you can enjoy that rest now!
Well done Andy, I'm geussing you must have been the team just in front of us, we arrived at Dunmail at around 3am on Sat morning?
Not Andy we left at midnight so Threlkeld at 3:40ish.Quote:
Originally Posted by fellgazelle
Andy certainly picked the best day for it: we went out on leg 3 today and conditions were pretty awful.Quote:
Originally Posted by DrPatrickBarry
That wasn't me must of been a guy who went at 2000 my catering manager saw him at road by Newlands does anyone know if he made it ? He didn't have much time left. I set off at midnightQuote:
Originally Posted by fellgazelle
Well done Jon glad you managed to get it done,your right about weather I really dropped on with it.Quote:
Originally Posted by tombsy
What changes did you make ?
WOW - Well Done Andy!
Welcome to the Club!!
Very pleased you timed it right!!!!
Disgusted with yourself or your fellow pacers?Quote:
Originally Posted by DrPatrickBarry
Two main changes - Brought start time forward from midnight to 7pm - body clock more used to starting races at that time and less time to get nervous during the day. I work in Ullswater valley so leg 2 in the dark wasn't a problem. Other change was not to touch a single energy drink - they triggered the being sick on attempt #1. Just drank plain water and water with Zero tablets in and just got energy from eating lots (bananas and quiche were best for me as easy to swallow on the move).Quote:
Originally Posted by andygib1982
Myself, I read on a BG thread only last week a couple of guys done the same thing on a recky and when I saw your lights off to my right I knew straight away what I had doneQuote:
Originally Posted by mountain bag
Yeah I went at midnight and the hanging about is a bit of an arse to much time to think and get nervous !Quote:
Originally Posted by tombsy
I agree on the sweet thing i only had natural sugar (dried apple,rasins & banana) and only had a little on 2. Come leg 3 I had a bottle of SIS energy drink I just found it to disgusting though so stuck to Nuun water and plain water. I only had the 1 gel on 3 and another on 4 then 1 just before the road.
What a great day out - really well done Andy.
I've got quite a few photos from Legs 2, 4 & 5. As soon as I get myself organised with camera & USB cable in the same place at the same time I'll upload them somewhere.
It was good to meet a few new faces, including Martyn P., Bill & Ben (sorry about getting your names mixed up!) and the rest.
How nice for Andy to have his Mum run the last bit with him. When I did my round my parents were both in their late 70s/early 80s and flatly refused to run any of it with me.
Well done to Dr. Pat for running 3 Legs on his first ever BG support. And I'm amazed at the guy who got round on Sunday - a brilliant effort. As Pat said, we could barely stand up on Grisedale Pike on Sunday morning. (Due to the wind, not the beer).
Just checking. We didn't have much choice in terms of leaving you to find your own way down, we'd had route conflab on the turn right - Bills line is faster than mine and still you weren't in sight. At that point the route becomes quite technical but run able. We couldn't let Andy's time slip.Quote:
Originally Posted by DrPatrickBarry
Nice one Andy-impressive time. Enjoy the feed for the next few days!
Here's a link to my photos.
They may be a bit blurred, poorly composed etc., but unfortunately I've still not got the hang of taking pictures whilst checking the map, writing down summit times, oh yes, and feeding a 30 year-old! (In fact I couldn't even get the setting right on Dale Head, and ended taking a short video - ho hum!)
Hopefully they've captured just a tiny bit of the magic that was running along the Dodds ridge with the sun coming up & the cloud inversion.
I done the same at the moot hall I have 3 or 4 videos of a few seconds each. I suppose that is what eight and a half hours of running does to you.Quote:
Originally Posted by GeoffB
Well done Andy, very impressive. I hope you are going to sign your mum up for Pennine!
Mark F.
Hi Geoffb
Good to meet you to, Some nice pictures in there.
Ben
Which he was and I had four very nice pints in the pub :))Quote:
Originally Posted by DrPatrickBarry