3 DAYS (of Madness!?!) IN MAY

Just to say.....
(I think.....:rolleyes:..)...
back by popular demand ;).....

3 Days Of Spectacular Madness....
that is 3 Days of Hayfield Fell Races in May....

Three Days in May - 14-16 May

Juniors welcome at May Queen and Lantern Pike Dash races.

• Fri, 14th - 7:30pm - May Queen FR - 3m/700'
• Sat, 15th - 11:00am - Mount Famine FR - 5m/1850'
• Sun, 16th - 2:00pm - Lantern Pike Dash - 1.2mi/630'

More details as ever are on the Hayfield Fell Races Website...
http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~temples/hc/ (thanks to SteveT)

Hope to see you there...

It's a Kracking KFR Weekend!!!

Three cracking races and quite a socialable way to spend a fell running/racing weekend. Careful as Mount Famine is tougher than the stats suggest and has definitely one of the daftest starts on the fell running calendar. Lantern Pike has a good turn out of youngsters. Its a really nice series of three. By sunday everyone feels in quite a chatty mood, I don't know whether thats because your race vest hums by then, the legs don't work or the race starts in the field next to the lovely pub.

Blimey.......
No takers??????
Surely Knott.......

Having said that, there have been Junior enquries...
particularly for the LPD, which is something very special!

And, the Senior LPD is akin to Hayfields very own Burnsall....

Come now don't be shy, time to nail your colours to the mast....?

+ of course there will be prizes too...

hope to see you there..

Ha.....the power of thought???

Just shows you..:o.!!!!

Thanks MB, I can see your prize now ;) !?!

(But, can we afford it :D?)

As long as I beat Andre Vais over the three days this year I'll be happy - have to run harder on friday night ;-)

Well, it's all a bit quiet......this morn'...

Having said that there was quite a throng on the fells around Hayfield last night!

Some from the flat lands were even seen fraternising with the "enemy”…

Whilst others were checking out the routes on & off the Pike & Mount Famine….

Hope to see you back again tonight for the 1st bout of Madness!!!?

I'll be there for all three - all things being equal i.e. not overdoing it tonight and not dying a death tomorrow. It's always a challenge on Sunday to get the legs working to start with.

I just wish LPD was a bit earlier so I could teach the kids that the proper order of things is race followed by a long lunch in the pub

Some pictures from tonights race! :)

http://www.flickr.com/photos/finniga...7624061465804/

Starting to upload now!

Results for May Queen and Mount Famine races on the URL below - also links to lots of photos and the overall standings in the 3 Days competition.

Cheers, Steve

Where's registration for the Lantern Pike Dash - in the Scout Hut or the pub?

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Where's registration for the Lantern Pike Dash - in the Scout Hut or the pub?

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At the pub

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Originally Posted by not mad enough

Where's registration for the Lantern Pike Dash - in the Scout Hut or the pub?

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Neither! In the field next to the pub (should be signposted)

Steve

A few photos of the Dash being uploaded as I type at

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/a...6&id=721127180

Some photos from this afternoon's race!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/finniga...7623947845425/

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Some photos from this afternoon's race!

http://www.flickr.com/photos/finniga...7623947845425/

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Love the watch with little pinky out - just like tea at the ritz... cracking.

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Love the watch with little pinky out - just like tea at the ritz... cracking.

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Yes I noticed that little pinky sticking out so 'cropped' this from the original image which I then accidently deleted. I do believe it is Steve Knowles of Pennine!

The Dash is a fantastically simple race and once again has been a great way to ease myself back into racing after a post-Fellsman relaxation week. Thanks to Andy, Liz and all the land-owners and helpers for making such a great little race happen. And the kiddies race was a big hit in our house with a post-race carb-curry for all!

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A few photos of the Dash being uploaded as I type at

http://www.facebook.com/home.php#!/a...6&id=721127180

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Have you got to have a log-in for this? (As the actress said to the bishop!)

Should be available to everyone even if they are not on Facebook, let me know if not and I will change the permissions

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Should be available to everyone even if they are not on Facebook, let me know if not and I will change the permissions

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"You must log in to see this page.":(

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"You must log in to see this page.":(

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Sorry, had set the privacy setting to everyone, my view of everyone must have been different to facebook's. Have now uploaded to flickr with a setting of anyone

http://www.flickr.com/photos/secondt...7623950281323/

I've a spreadsheet of the three days results, should anyone feel the need to be a geek like me and view it in overall or day result versions... send me a pm if you'd like a look too...

Bit of a change in format this year.......
There is even time to recover between races!!!

If you don't know already.....



Three Days in May - isn't quite as usual! The three races will be run over three weekends as follows

• Mount Famine FR - Sat 14th May at 11:00am - Been & gone...
• Lantern Pike Dash - Sun 22nd May at 2:00pm (juniors 2:30)
• May Queen FR - Fri 27th May at 7:30pm

Prizegiving will be at the May Queen race.

More info at...... http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~temples/hc/

In the spirit of Mount Famine, here is a quick report of a run up and down a hill. (This one is Lantern Pike)
http://globaltherapies.blogspot.com/...tern-pike.html

Thanks to Mr LuvShack for sharing the luv with us all.

I have photos for anyone interested - send me yr number and email and I'll get them to you. Think, given the small field, I have a photo of most people.
Also took a few of the juniors race.

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I have photos for anyone interested - send me yr number and email and I'll get them to you. Think, given the small field, I have a photo of most people.
Also took a few of the juniors race.

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Nice report, Cyclops. What you didn't see was Dan's technique for overtaking Chris Leigh. He sort of dived, rolled, slid, got up again, and there he was in first place! Well done Dan - his first race win in a Pennine vest.

Well done, especially, to all the kids in the junior race. They (mostly) loved splashing through the beck on their race.

Just to say....
A Very Big Thank-you to all who really make the Lantern Pike Dash happen...
The course is over mainly private land -it's great to have the willing support of those giving their permission..
Also - the very able KFR Team - who sort the Registration & Results... Flag & Marshall the more than unusual Senior & Junior courses...
Plus - despite the bonkers weather (Lashing Gales & Torrential Rain + Bright Sunshine too!!!), I'm pretty certain there was plenty of enjoyment to be had!

Results & more are appearing in what has become the usual place http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~temples/hc/ (thanks SteveT:wink:)

AND OF COURSE......
DON'T FORGET THIS FRIDAY......"DAY 3"...OF THE MADNESS....
ANOTHER CHANCE TO SAMPLE THE DELIGHTS OF LANTERN PIKE SUMMIT..
FROM A LESS STEEP ANGLE.......Heeee....Heeeeee..
IN HAYFIELD MAY QUEEN FELL RACE....
FRIDAY 27th - 7.30pm.....
FROM THE VILLAGE FIELD - BEHIND THE SCOUT HUT.....
More details again at http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~temples/hc/

Congratulations to Dan Chan, of Pennine, who is the overall winner of the 3 Days In May race series.

Full results will be up on Steve's site pretty soon, no doubt - http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~temples/hc/

Congratulations to all the juniors in tonights Hayfield May Queen race.There were some stunning performances and I think some of the elite runners in 10 years time will find some very fast youngsters snapping at their heels.

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Congratulations to all the juniors in tonights Hayfield May Queen race.There were some stunning performances and I think some of the elite runners in 10 years time will find some very fast youngsters snapping at their heels.

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You're quite right, William. Good performances from some of the teenagers, but I thought Lucas Parker (10 years old?) was absolutely brilliant - he even beat his mum, and she's no slouch!

Great evening out guys, thanks for the organisation etc. I tried to say thanks to all the volunteers around the course as I ran, but I may have missed a couple...
Well done to the Juniors out there, my god, some of them can properly run, I need to get out there and train a bit more. In the mean time, I've had a small chance to peck away at the keyboard, and here is a first version race report.
http://globaltherapies.blogspot.com/...-hayfield.html

I may come back to it when a little less tired and a little less tipsy and re-edit it, but there you go, enjoy.

Results are up at the Hayfield web site http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~temples/hc/

But there's something not quite right - I came sixth and my son (8) was last and the times for these finishes are correct, but I've moved down one place in the results and my son has moved up one place!

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Results are up at the Hayfield web site http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~temples/hc/

But there's something not quite right - I came sixth and my son (8) was last and the times for these finishes are correct, but I've moved down one place in the results and my son has moved up one place!

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Hi Joe,

I typed up the results last night so I happen to have the results board handy. Here's a pic of the relevant bits - http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~temples/hc/mq11.jpg

Let me know if you want to appeal! (Look on the bright side, at least you weren't beaten by a 9 year old like me...)

Cheers, Steve

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Results are up at the Hayfield web site http://www.cs.man.ac.uk/~temples/hc/

But there's something not quite right - I came sixth and my son (8) was last and the times for these finishes are correct, but I've moved down one place in the results and my son has moved up one place!

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Hi Joe,

After a high level inquiry (Mary looked at the timesheets) it seems you were right about Sam and his time was swapped with John Harvey - apologies for this. No word on moving you up a place though - sorry!

Cheers, Steve

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Hi Joe,

After a high level inquiry (Mary looked at the timesheets) it seems you were right about Sam and his time was swapped with John Harvey - apologies for this. No word on moving you up a place though - sorry!

Cheers, Steve

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Sorry no reply - just been in the Highlands for two weeks. I don't mind Steve - I thought they might all be out by one - and John Harvey might be disappointed with the extra 4 minutes added to his time!

It was a great race - my son enjoyed it enormously.

Thanks for another great May Queen race. Thanks to Mary and all the helpers. Well done to all the juniors for putting in some great performances.

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Originally Posted by William Clough

Thanks for another great May Queen race. Thanks to Mary and all the helpers. Well done to all the juniors for putting in some great performances.

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I second all of that. An lovely evening for a great little race.

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Originally Posted by William Clough

Thanks for another great May Queen race. Thanks to Mary and all the helpers. Well done to all the juniors for putting in some great performances.

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Results now up on the URL below.

Cheers, Steve

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Originally Posted by William Clough

Thanks for another great May Queen race. Thanks to Mary and all the helpers. Well done to all the juniors for putting in some great performances.

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Aye, grand, wasn't it. Ta. Such quick results too, while I was still queuing in the chippy.

A lovely evening indeed - thanks to Mary and her team of helpers. Riding to the race on my bike from Didsbury left me pretty goosed for the race, but it's always lovely to run over Lantern Pike on a hot summers evening and it was good training!