Three Peaks Fell Race

Hee Hee - a gear debate! my 3 cents:

cent 1 I don't think anyone is going to come to harm through lack of a hat & gloves, no matter what befalls them - litigation as a result of a yea-nay decision on that one is highly improbable.
cent 2 If the organiser has a divergent opinion, then that should be respected. It is easy enough to keep em in the sports bag year round - my bag still has crampons in it!
cent 3 The FRA should probably add hat/gloves to the list of kit one should be prepared to carry. Hard to second-guess a hassled organiser when one sniffs the air on a balmy spring morning.

Back to running...

Superb race, had probably the best race of my career, 3:16 and 13th overtaking and losing no places throughout. Hopefully made the welsh team for Slovenia..

Great event, justifiably popular, great support. Good to see a strong field. No doubt I'll do it many times yet, but doubt I'll eclipse Saturday.

Re the kit, huge field, huge area, obviously some confusion inevitable, like last years minutes silence which many of us didn't hear, these things happen, pit it to bed and look at the positives as the old guy said in his speach.

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Originally Posted by IainR

Back to running...

Superb race, had probably the best race of my career, 3:16 and 13th overtaking and losing no places throughout. Hopefully made the welsh team for Slovenia..

Great event, justifiably popular, great support. Good to see a strong field. No doubt I'll do it many times yet, but doubt I'll eclipse Saturday.

Re the kit, huge field, huge area, obviously some confusion inevitable, like last years minutes silence which many of us didn't hear, these things happen, pit it to bed and look at the positives as the old guy said in his speach.

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Well done Iain, what a fabulous race for you! Fantastic time! :thumbup:

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Originally Posted by IainR

Back to running...

Superb race, had probably the best race of my career, 3:16 and 13th overtaking and losing no places throughout. Hopefully made the welsh team for Slovenia..

Great event, justifiably popular, great support. Good to see a strong field. No doubt I'll do it many times yet, but doubt I'll eclipse Saturday.

Re the kit, huge field, huge area, obviously some confusion inevitable, like last years minutes silence which many of us didn't hear, these things happen, pit it to bed and look at the positives as the old guy said in his speach.

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Great run Iain, hope the mrs. is ok, saw her walking back to Ribblehead.
Tried getting away from hat and gloves last night but some folk find them more interesting than the actual race:rolleyes:

[QUOTE=IainR;408081Re the kit, huge field, huge area, obviously some confusion inevitable[/QUOTE]

The kit list should be spelt out in writing at registration and the entrants attention drawn to this. Full body cover means FULL, hands and head are as much part of the body as any other.

I have unfinished business at this race, one year I will be back.

Yeah, her knee was going, she has a old injury sort of thing, muscle imbalance which can flare up, if she stops and gives it a day or two and stretches and does her excersises it goes away, but carrying on could have caused a longer term injury, so she called it a day, due to passport issues she can't run in Slovenia so it wasn't such a big race for her, so no poin in risking the rest of her season..

It's an event that gets under your skin, hard to get right, easy for it all to go wrong, she's had two bad ones here now so wants to go back next year..

Strangely due to reynaulds thingy I wore tshirt and gloves until ribblehead, but the was topless for the last third as it really heated up. That run off into the wind was really hard work this year. Good to see ricky get a good run and getting over his injury, awesome run by tom owens, but didn't expect robbie to be so strong at longs at such an age, seems destined to be a fell running great..

Yes, Robbie Simpson, what is he 19? Great future ahead of him.

Great day again although I reckon the wind didn't help times to much - perhaps others would disagree?

I found it hard going up PNG and was slower than last year maybe the wind maybe the porridge and bacon sarny for breakfast!

Got going again across to Wherneside and thankful for getting blown up the last bit. Slid down to Hill Inn in my road flats and then tried to kick on up Ingleborough. Solid run back and no cramp and fairly pleased with 3:26 but kinda felt I should have run quicker. Strong field up front but plenty to overtake on the descent as always!

Excellent prizes from Salamon for the team awards - thanks :)

Well done to the organisers - great job.

Did PPP for the first time this year and my training plans were obliterated ankle tendonitis. Managed a couple of decent training runs in the last two months only for the ankle to flare and take me out again for a few weeks. Most of my hill training was on bicycle rather than in walshes! Lined up on saturday feeling okay but with expectations (hopes?) of just staying inside the cut offs and trying to get under 5 hours maybe. Took everything steady up penyghent (~500th at the top) and reminded myself to ease off over to ribblehead whenever I felt that I was putting in any effort (~450th? - I'm sure I kept getting overtaken by the rampant road runners sprinting this section?). Two bananas, a sports drink and a lot of wind powered me up Whernside (~400th), and I quite enjoyed that decent until hitting the tarmac (boo!) to Hill Inn (~350th). Almost had my shin pierced by a runner who had taken poles with him for getting up Inglebugger but managed to side step him to the summit (~300th). Jumped off the top and found a few quicker routes to the right of the path at the top and fought through the cramping legs (could feel the lack of long run training here) to finish just under 4.15 in 264th. Well chuffed.

Was amazed at the number of marshals and the general organisation - felt more like a Salomon or similar event than a fell run (kept expecting a cargo net or river crossing to be around the corner!). May or may not be back next year as I've put in for London and would also like to do Teenager With Altitude at some point. Too many races!

Next stop - Isle of Jura - oops!

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Originally Posted by brett

Memorable moments
Ben finishing 3rd

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Saturday was a great day for supporting and big respect to all runners. Ben's finish was my best moment too - proud to be in your team my friend!