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Due to my stupidity, I managed to miss both 13 and 15 :)
I zoned out on the way to 13, and only woke up as I was heading to Stanedge Pole before I realised my mistake. To be frank, I did not fancy running back 600m and I would have been okay with being disqualified.
#15, I was navigating from the map so foolishly didn't read the control description.
Yet again my pace was 86% of the winner's, so no change to my Vasque score.
Well I really enjoyed it but I feel a bit peeved now because I lost about half an hour looking for controls 9 and 13, and I know it wasn't an orienteering event but I didn't realise that dibbing was optional - I thought that missing a dib meant DQ. :confused:
Seems to me that D&W need to get their house in order regarding dibbing. I had a rant at them a couple of years back at the Hope Moors and Tors race. It was run with dibbers and there was a big notice at the start saying that dibbing was compulsory and missing CPs would result in DQ. They still decided to put people who had missed a checkpoint into the prize list. Not the way to endear yourself to your competitors...Quote:
Originally Posted by Grouse
Cheers, Steve
Enjoyed this event (apart from going spectacularly wrong after Stoke Ford – I blame it on the heat!) Like a few others, I also completely missed CP13 (Stanage) and had to run back quite a way to find it. Many thanks to the organisers and his helpers for a great day out – I hope the event isn’t just a one off but re-appears next year.
Sorry to be a stick-in-the-mud, but it does seem unfair that some people failed to dib at every checkpoint but still appear in the results – 3rd, 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th positions. Like most people, I struggled to locate a few CPs but made a conscious effort to find and dib at every single one.:mad:
It was good to meet a three forumites that I was aware of - socks, Derby Tup and SteveS. I must have met others as well without realising.
I found this rather challenging. The legs weren't having any of it and I did far more walking than I should have done. My average speed over the full 32 miles was about the same as the previous week on the Lakeland 50! It was a beautiful day, though, and the views were to die for.
I managed to get all the dibber points apart from 13, which I was going to look for as I got to the edge. WRONG. I felt in no fit state to go back and search for it. I was already slow enough and I knew I'd done the whole route, so felt no guilt in carrying on.
I've just uploaded my pictures. What a beautiful day it was. Now I know why Derbyshire is my favourite county.
The blog will get updated in due course (I'll let you know.... ;)
Whilst I did enjoy this event, it's only right and proper to admit I found it proper 'ard.
First long run after a tendon injury that's been troublesome since the Fellsman, to add injury to injury I also managed to break a bone in my toe on the way up to Stanage due to a unplanned toe/rock interface in a deep puddle. Oh joy!
Thanks to Muddy, Derby Tup, and various others for dragging through the last ten miles when it would have been easy to pack it all in and catch a bus back to Bradwell.
I think I got all the checkpoints, and because a) I'm not going to win anything anyway and b) series points are based on times not positions, I'm not that fussed that people didn't get DNF'd. Have to agree that some of the CPs were bloody difficult to find/reach.
Nice photos Nick (even the one I took!). Looking forward to the blog.Quote:
Originally Posted by BritNick
Nice photos Nick. Good reminder of a tough but memorable run out. :)Quote:
Originally Posted by BritNick
Nice photos BritNick. Saw the plane come over and wondered whether it was a lancaster.
Wheels well and truly came off for me on this. Stupidly didn't check my map when got to Parkin Clough and went down the slowish high peak marathon descent straight down. Got down to the bottom nr the yorkshire bridge then realised i'd missed a checkpoint and wasted loads more time going back to find it.
Then when i got to checkpoint 15 I looked all over the place for it, spent bout 30 mins looking for it and still didn't find it. Assumed I was disqualified at that point and consequently didn't bother doing any more dibbing then.
Good to go around lots of paths i'd not been on before though. Will look at my map more next time and not assume i know the route.
Good to see some forumites out and about.