If anyone has any photos from the race, it'd be great if you could put them up somewhere, thanks :)
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If anyone has any photos from the race, it'd be great if you could put them up somewhere, thanks :)
I've just written up about the race here: http://marknixonsblog.blogspot.co.uk/
It's a bit long, and kind of goes off topic...
Great read Mark,Well done and hope all goes well for you and P&B in 2016 ;)
Yet another fantastic race with a fantastic field. Many thanks to everyone who came, the numbers took us somewhat by surprise. I have sent the results to the FRA and they should appear on the website shortly. We wish you all a very merry Christmas and a happy 2016.
See you soon be it in the Pyrenees ;-) or in a field in the UK.
Debbie, Gary and Leah
www.pyrenees-haven.com
Results are on the FRA site. Thanks for a great race, first time for me but I've passed that way on a couple of KIMMs and other events in the past. Sorry to have to point out that you have me wrongly placed in the results, I was actually about 9 or 10 minutes slower than that, possibly in the position where you have a '?'. I don't mind in the least but the people who were ahead of me might!
Mark Graham, CFR
Currently thinking of Sunday 16th October for Really Wild Boar this year - the day after the FRA Relays. Any thoughts?
Debbie
www.pyrenees-haven.com
It could cause some issues to those staying over in Scotland after the FRAs I guess.... OR the race could potentially act as a great place to stop off on the way back to stretch the legs?? What better stretch is there then a run up Wild Boar and back? :D
BREAKING NEWS!! Really Wild Boar 2016 will be Saturday 26th November!
See you then.
Debbie
www.pyrenees-haven.com
To celebrate Yorkshire Day and the fact that Wild Boar fell home of the awesome Really Wild Boar fell race has as of today become part of the Yorkshire Dales National Park we are offering 10% off ALL bookings made before Sunday 7th August!! An offer too good to miss!
Debbie
www.pyrenees-haven.com
REALLY WILD BOAR - DATE CHANGE!!
The Really Wild Boar fell race will now be held on Sunday 23rd October 2PM start!!
Debbie
www.pyrenees-haven.com
YQuote:
Originally Posted by Pyrenees Haven
Nice 1 Debbie. Should be fun weekend . Gt Whernside Saturday followed by Really Wild Boar. Don't suppose you've got a link to a map with route on ?
Cheers
Matt
What if not many people have seen this message? There may not be many runners as it's not on the calendar.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pyrenees Haven
Also where is it?!
It's in the name, Wild Boar Fell.
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Originally Posted by wjb
I think we have managed to make the Fell Running calendar once in the last 7 years! We live in the French Pyrenees so the date for the race changes every year depending on when we can make it back. I have posted the date change on the FRA Facebook page, the Pyrenees Haven Facebook page and also on Twitter, we generally do ok for attendance.
Date & time: Sun 23rd October 2016 at 14:00
Country: England
Region: York. Dales
Category: AS
Distance: 8km / 5m
Climb: 427m / 1401ft
Venue: Street on the A683 Sedbergh/Kirkby Stephen road.
Grid ref: 743015
Skills & experience: ER, LK, NS
Minimum age: 16
We'll be at Great Whernside as Gary is planning on running, so it should indeed be a great race. I think there is a link somewhere in this thread for a map, I'll have a look and post something on here.
Cheers
Debbie
www.pyrenees-haven.com
Thanks for letting me know where it starts Debbie, looking forward to the race.
Luckily for me the new date coincides with a half-term break in Askrigg :). Not having ANY local knowledge of this one, and no chance to recce, a map or route description would be much appreciated. Found this on FRB from a link earlier on this thread. It's from 2011, so not sure if the route has changed? cheers....
.from the hamlet of Street follow the bridleway up on to the fell. Follow the bridleway crossing a stream and going through a gate all the way up to the shoulder of Wild Boar. At the top gate go through it and follow the steep climb on the right up onto the summit plateau. Keep the drop on your left hand side and run to the far end of the plateau to a group of cairns. Do not cross the fence but do an almost full about turn to pick a trod up which leads to the summit cairn. At the summit go straight off the front of the fell and return to the stream at and you cossed/went through on your way up the bridleway. Return on the bridleway back to Street.
The route is the same, we have checkpoints and bucket drops to ensure you stick to the route and make it back safely! I will do a brief route description at the start.Quote:
Originally Posted by stumpy
I can't find a map all our UK maps are in Leeds, I post add a map to the forum on the Friday before the race when we return to the UK. Unless some lovely person wants to upload one before then!
See you soon.
Debbie
www.pyrenees-haven.com
Cheers Debbie.
Attachment 8558
The MMap trace is the route i take, the red line is the route everyone else takes, and the yellow line is another route i'm trying some time. You have to come back to the ford where the flag icon is, if not you'll be considered missing.
Good work Mr Brightside!Quote:
Originally Posted by mr brightside
Gary says the yellow line is the route people took when we started the race and found it to be a very sodden mess!
Debbie
www.pyrenees-haven.com
Good work indeed Mr B!
Not surprised the yellow line was a bit soggy!!
I think it's a case of being long-legged and fast over crap ground. I think you'd make up time with a good fast drop into the gill bottom too, but again that requires specialist descending skills. The blue line is fraught with small but numerous bogs and large peat hags, and on two occasions you find yourself running uphill; but you make the time up by not necessarily being inconvenienced by such features.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pyrenees Haven
Yet another splendid Really Wild Boar, massive thanks to everyone that came and raced and helped out. Results will be available from Thursday, unlikely before as we are away for the next few days. Thanks again for coming and supporting our little race!!
Debbie
www.pyrenees-haven.com
Thanks for putting it on and to everyone involved, especially to the maker of the banana cake at the end which was just the ticket! Definitely one of my favourite races.Quote:
Originally Posted by Pyrenees Haven
Great wee race this, and a god introduction to a lovely area for running in tha I might otherwise have missed! Good to chat too, especially a quick catch up with DF.
Many thanks Debbie and your team.
I will pass on your appreciation of the banana cake to my Auntie Evelyn!Quote:
Originally Posted by Sam Harrison
Cake is available everyday at Pyrenees Haven!!
Seriously, cheers Sam we really enjoy putting on the race so it is always lovely to see that people enjoy running it.
Debbie
www.pyrenees-haven.com
HI Debbie
Are the results available anywhere yet?
thanks
Dave
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REALLY WILD BOAR
Date & time: Sat 28th October 2017 at 14:00
Country: England
Region: York. Dales
Category: AS
Distance: 8km / 5m
Climb: 427m / 1401ft
Venue: Street on the A683 Sedbergh/Kirkby Stephen road.
Grid ref: 743015
Skills & experience: ER, LK, NS
Minimum age: 16
Debbie
www.pyrenees-haven.com
Hi, coming over to do this at weekend, are there maps available at race entry? Don't have one of the area ....
The Ramones told us that “Sheena is a punk rocker”.
I very much doubt that Joey Ramone would’ve known that Gary Devine was also punk rocker.......more impressively Gary was also a British and English fell running champion.....beat that Sheena!
In homage to the Really Wild Boar race organisers Gary and Debbie.....how many punk bands can you spot within my write up?
”Never mind the bollocks, here’s the race report”.
The clash of today’s races; Race You To The Summit and Really Wild Boar had left me with a conflict of interest. Both are great little races and on Friday night I had worked out that logistically it was just about possible to do both. However....perfect driving conditions would be needed, one traffic jam and we’d have been sat in the car like a couple of Stooges. I’d decided for once to be captain sensible and just do Really Wild Boar.
It’s an early afternoon start so a light antipasti dinner was on the cards, a big dinner would’ve brought on stomach cramps. I’d even have time for some television.
I’m just about to leave the house and I’d almost forgot my running shoes. Only then do I notice that one pair had a couple of slits across the front, great for the discharge of water but not ideal. Another pair are covered in thick dried on mud which would need abrasive wheels to sort out....they’ll have to do.
Really Wild Boar is a low-key event, no big adverts directing you to race registration. Most runners are FRA members, you’ll not find this race in some shop bought running magazine but still over 100 fell runners turnout, such is the quality of the race and Gary and Debbie’s influence.
On the startline, Bill and I are the only ones from Chorley. There’s even an actual proper rock star, former Chumbawamba guitarist Boff Whaley, he may get knocked down but he’ll get up again. Also a great turnout at the business end of the field with Carl B, Joe B and Daz K being the early runaways. It’s a slog heading into the wind over these lesser exploited fells of Mallerstang. The higher we climb and the wind picks up as we head into the low lying clouds, I wish my kitbag contained some x-ray spex, they’d have helped in finding a better route choice than the one I took. The weather is making me disoriented and I swear the wind is beginning to sound like wailing banshees. I can hear voices in the distance...it's the talking heads of fellow runners also experiencing the disorder caused by the challenging fell top conditions.....we must all be insane in the membranes to be enjoying this, but we are, it’s brilliant. No drones overhead, the footage would be a sham.
Gary is manning check point one with his spaniel, I love spaniels, great English dogs, and I’m sensing the undertones of a storm as my cold stiff little fingers drop my knickers into Gary’s bag...I’d better explain!!!!
Really Wild Boar uses knicker elastic with metal chits attached that each runner drops off at the required check points. Now here’s where I get all crass and start making lewd comments about how this system was used last year and we’re handling used knickers....I just hope they don’t belong to Becki Bondage of the Vice Squad, if she wants her knickers back, give em back, she’s hard.
Running off Wild Boar fell when in clag is like heading into the damned, I’ve done the race about 5 times and I find myself running over unfamiliar terrain. I’m in the ruts and take the fall, bow wow wow that shock me up. Getting back on route it’s great running over the wet moorland, splodgenessabounds over the bogs, skids aplenty but great fun. I love this descent, it’s good to be out of the summit cloud and feeling confident to blitz the downhill now I know where I’m going....I swear I’m leaving vapors, such is my speed.
Another win for Mr Bell, I don’t know if the race went to the wire, it probably didn’t given how well Carl’s been running this year. Congratulations also to ladies winner Sharon Taylor....enjoy the toy dolls....best race trophies out there.
Race presentation is in The Fat Lamb and we must’ve looked a right sight as 100+ fellrunners made their entrance. What is the public image of your average fellrunner.....subhumans? Misfits? Yobs? Stranglers?....Fear not, no need to call 999 the only GBH is self inflicted whilst out on the fells, we’re a nice bunch...no upstarts in this sport.
I noticed my mate John from Black Combe runners stood alone by the bar, his mates have left early....we go over and give Jilted John some company.
On the way home I listened to Bournemouth v Chelsea on the radio....why couldn’t West Ham have been playing then I’d have mentioned how Cockney Rejects are big West Ham fans....whoops there you go, squeezed them in.....right I’ll get my coat, I’m killing (the) joke.
Many thanks to all involved.
Siouxper report
Now then cock sparrer, tha's a bit of a sham in thi retup.
Tha's failed ti mention if uk subs were ok'ed ferr Chorley?
On ya jog art did ya pass slits int the wire an the damned discharge?
Thall atabi steady wit lurkers wit thi germs as ital bi a red alert ti cure thi.
Enjoy thi Havana ci-gar and ignore that bloody drone.
How many of the 58 did you get?
Here’s the bands: Ramones, Clash, Conflict, Jam, Stooges, Captain Sensible, Antipasti, Cramps, Television, Slits, Discharge, Abrasive wheels, Adverts, Members, Magazine, Only ones, Chumbawamba, Business, Runaways, Exploited, X Ray specs, Banshees, Talking heads, Disorder, Membranes, Drones, Sham(69), English dogs, Undertones, Stiff little fingers, Crass, System, Becki Bondage, Vice Squad, Damned, Ruts, Fall, Bow wow wow, Slodgenessabounds, Skids, Blitz, Vapors, Wire, Toy dolls, Public image, Subhumans, Misfits, Yobs, Stranglers, Fear, 999, GBH, Upstarts, Jilted John, Chelsea, Cockney Rejects, Squeeze, Killing joke.
That’s your lot, admittedly some more punk than others.....but in the words of Anti Nowhere League, “So What”.
Low 40s but great effort chopsticks.
I do like the race as well, a proper back of a van over wild terrain race.
Great report Daz. Last time I did this race it was blowing a howler too. Not quite punk, but it felt like Earth Wind and Fire. On the way back I was streaming - that's following the line of water off the top ~ not listening to the music :-)
For this year only Really Wild Boar is going on tour.
Date & time: Sat 10th Nov 2018 at 14:00
Country: England
Region: York. Dales
Category: AS
Distance: 8km / 5m
Climb: 400m / 1312ft
Venue: Whitewells Road, Ilkley
Grid ref: 115470
Skills & experience: ER, PM, LK, NS
Minimum age: 16
Debbie
www.alps-haven.com
www.pyrenees-haven.com
I don't think the boars in Ilkley are really wild. Rather tame around there. :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Pyrenees Haven
The race is before the FRA dinner, this year organised by P&B, not known to be tame!Quote:
Originally Posted by anthonykay
Debbie
www.alps-haven.com
www.pyrenees-haven.com
[QUOTE=Pyrenees Haven;643207]The race is before the FRA dinner, this year organised by P&B, not known to be tame!
Debbie]
Indeed. I head that every hotel in Pudsey and Bramley turned the P&B booking down so you contacted the Craiglands as the Ilkley Over 70s Widows Sewing and Poetry Circle.
Burley Moor Run is in the morning of 10th November so could be a good double!