Dear All.
I saw a few folk with cameras during the run. Have any of the pics be uploaded yet?
Cheers
Tim
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Dear All.
I saw a few folk with cameras during the run. Have any of the pics be uploaded yet?
Cheers
Tim
I've not uploaded my photos but if you let me know yr number and email address I'll see if I've got any of you - happy to send them to you
EDIT: NB. a couple of requests answered by email....I have limited pics of this race so sorry to disappoint if I don't have any of you.
Pencilling this in as we speak.... I did it once before but it was probably 20 years ago! I don't remember the steep start up Elle Bank but perhaps that's changed since I did it?
Nope, Elle Bank is still there.Quote:
Originally Posted by Fellhound
and you still go up it.
Can't wait for MF this year. Its a smashing race :w00t:
Fairfield Horseshoe this year for me I think.Quote:
Originally Posted by Truck
Sounds good Dan.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dynamo Dan
This year I'm just trying to get a few PBs on last years races. I should be a fews mins faster on MF.
I might still run it, but if there's Lakes action on offer it's hard to turn down! I'd expect to be a fair bit quicker this year too, if I do run there might be another sprint finish!Quote:
Originally Posted by Truck
There might be!Quote:
Originally Posted by Dynamo Dan
Not too sure it will be with me mind :rolleyes: Your normally a good few mins ahead of me these days.
We'll see! Hopefully I won't almost throw up just before the finish this year...:oQuote:
Originally Posted by Truck
A mouth full of vomit in never good during a sprint finish :thunbdown:Quote:
Originally Posted by Dynamo Dan
Only those of us of a certain age can remember when the start didn't go up Elle Bank! I can't remember when it was changed - late 80s/early 90s perhaps?Quote:
Originally Posted by Fellhound
I'm hoping to be running at mount famine ,think I nearly puked When I did it too ,it does have that effect on you !Awesome raceQuote:
Originally Posted by Dynamo Dan
looking forward to running this without the May Queen race in the legs from the previous night! (although still a race on the Thursday in the NYMs. glutton.)
Maybe we need to get someone to hold a bucket or two next to the finish!Quote:
Originally Posted by steviek
it's worth busting a gut up elle bank as whoever you are stuck behind, you'll stay there till the end of the race unless you're not careful!
there's a pic of the start on my blog if anyone wants to see it
This about sums it up:
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then this is possibly one of the worst sights you can have whilst on a fell race:
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Then later on you'll look a bit more like this:
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remind me, why am I doing this race again?
I don't know who took these (i pinched em rather unceremoniously)
Tempted to give the Pennine vest its 1st outing on this....
If anyone isn't running but can help out on the day, Mark Boulton (race organiser) has asked me to ask you to get in touch with him. His details are all on Steve Temple's excellent Hayfield Fell-races page.
Wednesday....not long to go...better start resting the thighs / calves and carbo-loading for this wee blast....having just noticed 3 x 1.5kg packets of ugali flour in the cupboard....maybe I should throw a ugali party on Friday night...
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Originally Posted by andygib1982
If I may be so bold I'd say it's the quintessential Pennine race!
could I fit this in between visits to the toilet if *that* problem hasn't rectified itself?
If not and I'm sitting atop South Head, hope the wind is blowing north, for the runners' sakes!
Grosss..do we really have to put up with Nuckie-brown-frats this far sawth? :rolleyes:Quote:
Originally Posted by ba-ba
I've never done this before but I'm thinking about it, or I was until I saw it might involve sick? Is it really that bad?
It's probably the best short race in the Peak district. Steep climbs, steeper descents and a long, rough and very fast run in to the finish. In my opinion it should be an English Champs race every year!! Do it your legs will hurt, but you won't regret it!Quote:
Originally Posted by Sarah B
Indeed, its a great little route. Had a jog round it last week.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dynamo Dan
The views out over Kinder are spectacular from the top of South Head. if you're not being sick that is.
Its my favourite short local race ,with an unforgetable start ,you should Definately give it a go sarah b !Quote:
Originally Posted by Dynamo Dan
I've looked at the start :confused: and the route, I think I've run the ridge before - but ive decided to be brave and I'll just have to risk coming last and being covered in sick.....
Woodbank- MountFamine! - Doubleheader - UGALI!
Ugali is almost certainly going to be a banned substance at races one day...
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Originally Posted by Timothydaltonmyarse
Shouldn't that be: UGALI - Woodbank - MountFamine! - Doubleheader
unless the UGALI is going to be regurgitated after MountFamine....?! :w00t:
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Originally Posted by zephr
What is ugali?!
It's a Glossopdale secret. Couldn't possibly divulge just before the race. Mum's the word. Shhhhhh.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dynamo Dan
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FAMINE AWAITS......
In the quiet of this eve...
The Tail of our local Dragon...
Beckoning for the Morn' to come..
How will she treat you....??
Probably as you wish & perhaps deserve..:wink:
Let the Famine Fun Begin!!
Any space in your chariot for a wee Ugli one?:sneaky:Quote:
Originally Posted by Timothydaltonmyarse
PS. Just about finished clearing up your mess!
Dan, it's bubbling in the pot at the end of the rainbow north of Chunal watershed. Have a hack at google.Quote:
Originally Posted by Dynamo Dan
Well,
as Im spending my afternoon recuperating from the Famine before I have a go at Calderdale, I didn't have much else to do except sit down and tap at my keyboard.
hence.
http://testedtodestruction.blogspot....mine-2012.html
Well done once again to Simon Bailey. I don't know how he does it, but I have my suspicions.... not teleporting, more along the lines of irn bru and weetabix.
Obviously not ugali.:closed:Quote:
Originally Posted by zephr
Nice speedy blog Z, entertaining as ever. Have a good CR tomorrow.
Was my first MtF race, started gently (after Woodbank and not knowing course) and at the top of Elle bank, I was wondering what all the hype was about.
But I hadn't tightened the laces of my Walshes enough and had to stop a couple of times on the muddy decents when the right one got sucked off. Anoying. Lesson learned. A race with no tedious flat bits. My altimeter shows that the only flat section was the stile atop Mt. Famine :wink:.
I have decided, however, that it would take an awful lot of packets of ugali to put a dent in this race. Maybe an iron-bru and weetabix party next year.
A big shout to the RO, marshalls, etc - especially welcome was the encouragement from the marshalls at the extremities of the course (chap on the decent before the red flags, and the two folk at the bottom of Dimpus. Sorry I didn't recognise you - my eyes were streaming with tears in the wind). My pacing from there was good though, but although I pulled away a minute ahead of the group I was with after the final climb, the group further ahead were doing likewise to me, so I was very much on my own in the final 10 minute run-in alog the dragon and road.
PS - It was good to see lots of Pennine out running in the buff! Spurring them on to both M & L team prizes. Well done.
Nice impromtu challenge Timothy, and thanks for the lift in your chariot to Woodbank+Hayfield.Quote:
Originally Posted by Timothydaltonmyarse
It was very pleasant to be behind your arse at Woodbank for only one-third of the time that you were behind mine at Mt. Famine!:thumbup:
Shame we were not quite quick enough to fit in the Bollington too. More training required.:w00t:
WellI risked it and now feel like a hardened fell runner - not done a short race for a while and this was an absolute killer, and yes I felt sick!
Thank you OB for reassuring my husband I was on my way, he had told me all week that this was a tough one and I had accused him of exaggerating :o There was also a fantastic Dark Peak runner who kept me going for a while, at least no one lied and told me it was "all downhill from here"!
Great race though and thanks to the organisers and marshalls and the lovely cake afterwards. I think i might need my memory wiping of that last hideous climb if I return next year.....