I reckon it's 15 years ago this week since the Foot & Mouth outbreak. I remember doing the Carnethy 5 Hills then by the time Ilkley Moor came round the countryside was closed and Ilkley Moor was cancelled. I think most people thought it would only last a few weeks and Ilkley Moor was initially put back to April but eventually wasn't run till November.
How did everyone manage without there fell running fix? Although the English countryside was closed it seemed a bit more relaxed elsewhere, in May I went to Arran to do the Goat Fell race and in June we went to Ullapool for a week where the only way you would have known about F&M was the occasional bucket of disinfectant by a style.
In July it was a couple of trips to Wales to do Moel Siabod and Snowdon then the first Lakes race I remember was Borrowdale