I guess you have never done the Ian Hodgson thenQuote:
Originally Posted by Iken Fityemean
Because of the tight cut off times for the majority of teams Calderdale turns into a series of mass starts rather than a relay
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I guess you have never done the Ian Hodgson thenQuote:
Originally Posted by Iken Fityemean
Because of the tight cut off times for the majority of teams Calderdale turns into a series of mass starts rather than a relay
I enjoy all the relays I've been involved with from the Pennine, FRA, to Mansfield XC Relays and the 12 & 6 Stage road relays. I think it's the team spirit, all pulling together and having generally a good day out with your club mates that makes them what they are.
Not sure there is a "best" as they all have their merits. Seeing Nick McCormick fly the last leg at Mansfield a few years ago when he was faster than Farah and took Morpeth from 6th to 1st on the last 5K leg was phenomenal.
That lad can move - 14:21 for 5K cross country.
Is the re-arranged Calderdale Way Relay in any danger of being cancelled with the moorland fires ?
We are struggling anyway to get our 2 original teams from December together. Holidays,other commitments and races.
Lost all its appeal to me this year.
I think we feel very much the same really. Will look forward to the December running of it though.Quote:
Originally Posted by Stagger
Would have been better to cancel completely but i suppose they would have had to return entry fees then. Will look forward to December,
working this weekend but not too disappointed to miss it
I've been thinking the same thing myself. Isn't it on fire round Wainstalls?
To be honest I'm no longer looking forward to this event, our club team has been decimated by people dropping out due to other races etc. and now my partner for leg one also looks doubtful (he was navigating as I don't know the route) so I'm not sure what to do now. I think they should have just rolled entries over to next year and drawn a line under it this year. It'll surely be a major blow to have to cancel it twice though
it would be understandable if this had to be cancelled after all parts of moorland and open access land are been closed due to extreme fire risk!
Well I must be in the minority. Love this event and I'm looking forward to a good day out. Nothing better then a spring time run around Calderdale!
Agree with you Flightless Bird. Love the event and looking forward to running a May version of the event.Quote:
Originally Posted by Flightless Bird
We're all looking forward to it fom Sale, we have three full teams in it too.
How close is the finish to a train station...I fancy getting down to watch it whilst im a crock
Oops double post, ignore this, see below
Halifax, Brighouse & Sowerby Bridge train stations are all within 5 miles of the finish, don't know when you'll get a train on Sunday though, probably every 8 hours or something stupid!Quote:
Originally Posted by TurboTom
What happened Tom? You looked fine when I said hello on Wetherlam on Saturday.Quote:
Originally Posted by TurboTom
I've had an ankle injury for a couple of months now and turned it on Monday so I'm just in the bikeQuote:
Originally Posted by not mad enough
Seat or top tube?Quote:
Originally Posted by TurboTom
According to 'map myrun' - 2.08miles from Halifax Station
We had 2 teams ready to go in December now we cant get one team together for Sunday so thats £120 down the tubesQuote:
Originally Posted by Rob Furness
I dont know why people are so perturbed about this event. The only thing which has changed is the date. Every club has drop outs, however, isnt this an oppertunity for others to run. We've got 5 runners competing who have never experinced something like this before, and they're really looking forward to it!
Glass half full please!
Our team has had to drop out now, we would have had to either run two legs with only 1 runner (which obviously wouldn't count) or miss a leg which would wreck our results even if we all ran well. Bit of a disaster trying to get a team together so that's the end of that. Oh well
SOME teams must be left in...
so who's running which leg?
I'm a late draft on leg 6.
We are still in. Two teams, one mens team and a mixed team. Hopefully it wont change between this morning and tomorrow. Teams have changed since December but thats to be expected.
We are also still in with 4 teams. We had to drop just one. With it being on our doorstep I expect that it's easier for us. I can see the problems that clubs are having though with it being in busy race season now and lots of other good races to go at. I'll be around watching the fun tomorrow.... will seem strange not to have to wear 10 layers of clothes up at Wainstalls!!!!! have a god run everyone and enjoy the good racing conditions underfoot.
I think we're in the same team, Wee Beastie!
And yes, 8 layers at Wainstalls should be sufficient in May.
Have a good run.
I'll be there running leg 3. We still have our two teams entered, be it with a lot of changes. Looking forward to it, it will be my last race with the club :( so will give it a right goog go:)
Maybe not as good now as it was earlier in the week, quite a bit of rain this am and more forecast for overnight although says it'll be fine for the race.Quote:
Originally Posted by Wee Beastie
No snow forecast though!!
i'm on leg 6! off to pub for carbo loading!
When Marc called to cancel I said I could get round leg one with you, but we still had no runners for leg five so we had to drop out. I think he was hanging on to find a pair. So many are doing Leeds half though. My legs were very still after the peaks but that's eased off a bit now. I even ran a steady five the other day. It's a shame but there's other races
What shoes are people wearing? I did a recce of leg 3 a few weeks ago and managed fine in road shoes with it being bone dry. I'm much more comfortable in my road shoes to the trail shoes when it's dry with them being so light going uphill, even if it rains on the day the ground should still be pretty firm and quick draining.
Worth taking a risk? I'll be taking both pairs of shoes, but can only take one set to the start of the leg as we wont have a car at the start.
I'm not bothered to be honest, I wasn't overly looking forward to it but would have run it if everyone else was. It became a bit daft though with runners missing and not getting any time for a recce, plus the moor being on fire as well. As Marc said in his email, leave it to next year to give it a good crackQuote:
Originally Posted by Donkeyforth
Just got home after leg 2. Going down to Heath now to see if Calder valley have maintained the lead????????????????????
Champions!!!!!! Get in there! Cvfr rules!!!!
Well done Ben and co.:thumbup:Quote:
Originally Posted by Mounsey
Well done CVFR :thumbup:
From memory
Salford 2nd
P&B 3rd
Wharf 4th
Bingley 5th
Well done to all the Calder Valley team.
Great effort from CVFR, Ben and partner made a brilliant start on 1st leg, none of us could even see them after 10mins!
Watched them flying in to Cragg Vale - They were on fire!
pretty chuffed with that result. anyone have any more details? did we keep the lead the whole way round, and what was the time?
About 5 min lead after leg 1 and 2. Been informed it increased to about 14mins. Watched the finish, must have been about 8 mins ish lead.
It was under 6hrs.