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    Quote Originally Posted by Travs View Post
    Looks like she had a longer than scheduled rest at Patterdale during the night.
    When I was looking at the schedule yesterday, I was thinking that Swirral Edge was going to be fun in the dark. The longer rest at Patterdale has postponed that to daylight.
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    Yeah, her planned splits from arrival at Patterdale to the summit of Glenridding Dodd were about 7h30m, which included no break at Patterdale and about 2h at Glenridding. Her actual splits from arriving at Patterdale (2hr break) to Glenridding Dodd are nearly 9h. I think about 1hr of that is the additional break at Glenridding and the rest from small losses on individual splits.

    It's getting really interesting now! She's roughly 2h30m down on her own target, so about 4hrs up on the record. But for a while now she seems to be pretty consistently a few minutes down on her target pace from summit to summit. She's got about 60 left to do. This next section through to Souther Fell will be fascinating as it's generally much easier ground and relatively(!) little climb.
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    I think the splits around Dockray/Gowbarrow/Mell Fells look generous... although going into a 5th day, they need to be!!

    The splits on the next section on the northern fells don't appear to have much scope to pull time back... perhaps around Bowscale/Mosedale/Carrock there's a bit of time on offer...

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    Quote Originally Posted by Travs View Post
    I think the splits around Dockray/Gowbarrow/Mell Fells look generous... although going into a 5th day, they need to be!!

    The splits on the next section on the northern fells don't appear to have much scope to pull time back... perhaps around Bowscale/Mosedale/Carrock there's a bit of time on offer...
    I was running in that area yesterday. The main paths were reasonably dry and good going but still lots of boggier sections. Anything off the main paths or established trods was pretty overgrown and quite hard going.

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    Looks like a bit of an error coming off Whinlatter. Urging her on To go the right way through a screen doesn’t appear to be working.

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    It looks like she has been suffering today. Until midnight last night she had stayed around two and a half hours down on schedule for quite a long way, but today she has been losing a lot more. Six hours down at Binsey, seven hours down now. The record may be slipping away, but it's still a remarkable achievement.
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    Quote Originally Posted by anthonykay View Post
    The record may be slipping away, but it's still a remarkable achievement.
    Very much this. 'Only' about 30 mins down at Whinlatter, but as she's been losing time all day it's hard to imagine she can pull it back now, but who knows. Regardless, incredible effort.
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    She is clearly suffering now: 84 minutes from Causey Pike to Barrow, then 59 minutes to Outerside. When everything was going so smoothly for the first four or five days, I think I rather forgot what an enormous undertaking this is. I hope that having the end (almost) in sight helps her to get going again, and that she hasn't done any serious damage to her body.
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    Thankfully now approaching Catbells. I've hardly dared watch today.

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    Finished in 161:51:11.
    Absolutely fantastic.

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