OMM in Borrowdale!

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Originally Posted by Marvin

I'm just back from a week in the Lakes after this event and rather daunted by the number of comments on this thread. Can someone point me to the highlights?

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There isn't many mate :)

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Originally Posted by Stagger

Everything is black and white it's only them that sit on the fence that make it grey.:)
No perrsonal attacks intended and I will buy you a pint if I ever come across you;)

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Fair enough. This subject has made me more tired than my last race!

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Originally Posted by Stagger

Everything is black and white it's only them that sit on the fence that make it grey.:)
No perrsonal attacks intended and I will buy you a pint if I ever come across you;)

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His is an orange juice:p

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Originally Posted by Guick Dotto

Hey man respect :cool: But take care up there, for remember "With such extreme weather, the mountains become a dangerous place "
I expect you need that advice from another fellrunner don't you?;)

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Well it was certainly extreme conditions last Friday up on the tops, but i survived the dangerous conditions guick through listening to my own advice:D. Snow line was about 2200ft, awesome days running over dale head and around buttermere onto the gables and back to borrowdale. Where on the evening I spoke to a gnarly local who said 'I aint seen weather like it since 1956, them runners shouldnt have started....', it turned into a long night in the Scafell.......:)

Good on yer:)

Seems the OMM is slipping down the list, so here goes with another post.

I enjoyed reading Richard Askwith's comment in The Independent:
http://www.independent.co.uk/sport/g...ns-975372.html

I haven't got the patience to see whether anyone else has linked to it, but he explains much more clearly that I can, the event from the perspective of a runner, and what makes an event like this worth taking part in.

And a very recent one in the Guardian: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisf...-lake-district
This was written by a young man, Andy, who was doing the OMM with his dad. On that eventful Saturday evening I was making an exodus from the barn to Newlands via Newlands Hause with a friend from another pair. A car picked us up near the hause and we sat in the back seat next to Andy. His mother had picked them up from the barn. We apologised for the large amount of water we left on the seat - apologies again.
Yiannis

Now that the dust has settled I would like to add this postscript: Five of us escapees from the barn and from Seathwaite (plus some others later) had a most enjoyable evening at Swinside drinking excellent ale. So much for all that journalistic trash!

My day 2 map arrived this week and it remains unopened. Dying to have a look but have resisted the temptation so far in case me and my partner want to go and have a trot round sometime...and peeking would be cheating, wouldn't it??:confused:

Yeah, mine has arrived too... I forgot I wasn't going to look and enthusiastically opened it up... caught a glance, it is going where I thought it was, obvious really, then remembered... and rolled it back up. I am away in the Peaks for a bit of running and racing this weekend and have left the map at home, to take the temptation away!

You still up for a re-run of the OMM day 1 and 2 Grit? I may not be able to do it next weekend though, as my sprained ankle is still giving me trouble, so may want to wait another week...

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Originally Posted by Moorlander

Given Mr weir's Safety concerns. I thought you might like to know about something I witnessed earlier on in the year, whilst out on a BG recce.

A Green Helicopter came flying overhead in the Honister area. It carried out the most amazing aerobatic display very close to the crags. I like aerial displays, but had to look away more than once fearing it was going to crash in to the hill side. This went on for about 5 minutes before the helicopter landed outside the slate mine. Dont know whether this really means anything apart from the fact the man in question obviously likes to live dangerously when it suits him.

Im up for day two anytime...

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That helicopter shatters the peace of the Honister - Fleetwith - Hay Stacks area rather too much. Shame really, not just for people, but also the wildlife. I expect the peregrines will move-on, if they haven't already. Mr Weir might have the means and business accumen to be successful (in the narrowest sense of the word) at his Honister empire, but the Lakes could well do without people like him.