Might be able to help... I'll check the home front and be in touch. I was hoping to run it anyway, having not done it before, so I'll check with the Operations Director.:wink:
Might be able to help... I'll check the home front and be in touch. I was hoping to run it anyway, having not done it before, so I'll check with the Operations Director.:wink:
Last edited by lantern rouge; 03-05-2013 at 11:13 AM.
I'm signed up for registration duty...see you all there
It's the Mount Famine race this Saturday (part of the Hayfield 3 Days in May series) and organiser Mark Boulton has asked me to put out a request for helpers.
Please contact Mark directly if you can lend a hand on Saturday - 01663 749253, Mobile: 07873 115685, email: [email protected]
Race details here, as usual.
Last edited by GeoffB; 13-05-2014 at 08:12 AM.
Will I, won't I?
I wanted to do this race two years ago, but my wife invited some friends to visit us on that Saturday.
Then I was all set for it last year, but my Achilles tendon got a rather painful tendinopathy in the week before the race.
This year I apparently acquired plantar fasciitis the weekend before last, but I seem to have made a miraculous recovery (presumably it wasn't PF). What can stop me now? Well, Northern Rail, maybe. The 10:02 arrival at New Mills Central should leave me plenty of time to cycle up to Hayfield, but if that train is late . . .
According to Northern Rail website, the next strike is on Tuesday 30th May (i.e. the staff are having an extended Bank Holiday break!). I actually went to the Wardle Skyline race on the day of the last strike: they were running enough trains on the Manchester-Todmorden route.
It's a good race, although to it full justice you need to complete all 3 in the series.
Lantern Pike is also a crackers.
May Queen is a warm up to get the legs moving.
Of course, Stagger is absolutely right.
May Queen - Friday 19th May 7:30pm
Mount Famine - Saturday 20th May 11:00am
Lantern Pike Dash - Sunday 21st May 11:00am
All the details you need are here.
I'll see you at the bottom of Dimpus Clough on Saturday, making sure nobody cuts the corner!
I will be turning out for this one tomorrow
it will be my first Mount Famine at the 10th opportunity since I started fell racing
I was intrigued myself to know exactly why I'd never made it before, so looking back in my records my excuses are as follows:
2008 - Fairfield
2009 - Lady Slugge racing
2010 - Daughter's Birthday/Party
2011 - Leaden Boot (LDWA Challenge type event)
2012 - Daughter's Birthday/Party
2013 - Daughter's Birthday/Party/ week before BG attempt
2014 - OCT
2015 - Daughter's Birthday/Party
2016 - Heart Ablation Procedure Recovery
2017 - Daughter going for Birthday treat with mother/grandmother in afternoon... but me/car not needed til evening... so can FINALLY sneak away to sunny Hayfield!!
Scramble the rock face through the glare of morning sun — to run