Good luck to Caz Phillips on his attempt starting at 2am tomorrow!
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Good luck to Caz Phillips on his attempt starting at 2am tomorrow!
And to Chris Baynham-Hughes (Cheenis) who's hoping to go the distance with him. I may join them for leg 5 if I can stop coughing long enough...
Good luck!
Missus and my thoughts are with you Caz, big hugs at the end mate and see you soon. Take it nice and steady and you'll be fine, no need to rush round - you're training for the big one ....... the Meiri :thumbup:.
Good Luck all:wink:
Good luck and I hope the weather's good for you... it's the one real risk I am troubled by after all the training and planning.
GOOD LUCK!!!
Best of luck to them going tonight :thumbup:
Well that's me packed. Meeting them at Dunmail at 9:30 to 10 to cheer them on, then I'll do the Fairfield Horseshoe in a leisurely manner to tick the Wainwrights I need, then round to Honister, recce the first half of leg 5, then back to Honister in time to run the leg with them in the dark. All because I've got a cough & I'm not well enough to run the Calderdale Hike...
There were quite a few large patches of snow around on the higher tops today, some of them quite deep.
Conditions look superb at the moment... bright with high clould, just grazing the top of Fairfield. Hope all is going well.
On twitter @WTWilliamson has just spotted them comming off seat sandle at 0925 - due to Dunmail at 1000 on 22hr schedule so going really well!
Leg one done in 3.30 via parachute route in the dark. All going well. Very cold. Bladder freezing but little wind. Not much snow left.
Leg 2 done as well I have just heard. Similar fashion
Keep us posted, tell him Moley and Missus are following it, did he wear his stripey thermals in the cold and is he wearing his hat yet?
Spot-on nav from Tom on leg 1.
Took about two hours after the end of the leg before my feet were defrosted... As far as I'm concerned this counts as a winter round!
Will Caz get his daffodil round in one piece? :)
Bill Williamson just tweeted that "Caz and Chris left wasdale at 15:30 leg 3 done in 5:25" That's a pretty swift leg 3!
Awesome! Sounds like he's well on his way to nailing it.
Great, only another few hours Caz :D.
Please keep us updated on here with news - don't have tweeter etc.
From Richard Davies on twitter Caz completed in 20h 16m. Amazing effort given the conditions!
No news on Chris yet.
Well done.
Great, great, great effort. Well done mate, I'm having (another) drink right now. Give you a call.
From Bill Williamson on Twitter "Chris 20:44".
Wow, what an amazing effort from both. Brilliant.
Andy
Very Well Done to both, chuffed for em:thumbup:
Well done!
Very Well Done, not easy conditions i bet, Great times both.
Awesome! Well done.
Excellent job, well done both - especially so given the conditions, it was cold out there yesterday.
great times. well done
Yes, well done to both of you. Very swift times. Sorry I missed it.
They did really well - an awesome run from both of them. They were together until about Kirk Fell, then split up: there were plenty of pacers so that wasn't an issue. I joined Chris for leg 5, & he was still going strong apart from slowing down a bit on the steep downhill bits, & the usual mental vagueness. Usual for knackered runners I mean, not usual for Chris! Conditions were actually pretty good I think - I was up on the fells most of the day myself. There was a bit of a cold wind, but not quite enough to slow you down significantly, & it would have been behind them on leg 2. It was warmer on leg 5 than during the day, as the wind dropped completely. One or two short snow showers, but not amounting to much, & little on the ground apart from helpful hardpack on the Scafell Pike bouldery bits. They had good visibility nearly all day. I'm sure Chris will write something up for his blog once he's back in working order.
I was beginning to doubt it was very wintery round, having been up on Leg 3 today. But then I took the direct line up from Rosset to bowfell... The dogs and I were climbing on iced grass towards the top and I was needing to kick steps in the thankfully hard snow. Ice axe and some crampons would have been more helpful than two mutts and fell shoes - far too 'interesting', I'm not sure how the dogs made some of the sections I was too busy concentrating on myself, other sections they were shoved up - too committing to retrace our steps. Which was did folks take? Because very sensibly there were no footprints on the line I took (straight up from the wee cairn) - I was glad to see there were lots of fell running footsteps on the rest of the lines. Good effort all round.
I don't know these guys, but having trained more this year on the route I'm somewhat in awe of anyone that achieves this, but anything around 20 hours is brilliant! Well done those guys!
Spoken to Caz, he's fine but legs a bit stiff - because he hasn't done enough big hill work! He got his daffodill round and managed to put his "stripeys" on for the final road section, there's a photo somewhere apparently, which must be worth seeing :sneaky:.
Great work both. Typical of Chris to 'have a go' at short notice and pull of a pretty damn good time. Thanks for everyone keeping us posted - great stuff.