Quote Originally Posted by ydt View Post
Daz,
many thanks for such generous comments. Route knowledge might have been a good point but on the negative side, I had to fight some pretty unpleasant bouts of cramp now and then.
...And to make you feel better, quite a few years ago, with Steve cliff, we were leading the race from Cockley Beck. On the way back from the Old Man with a good lead over the opposition and while circumnavigating Great Carrs in thick fog, we dropped too low and came up to Hell Gill below Mart Crag. That forced us down to the road and we had to run all the way up to the 3 Shires Stone. We finished third.
...And now that I started, I better add some more tails. It appears that this closing stage of the race gives people problems. A few years ago, in bad weather, my companion bailed out at Angle Tarn and I asked the marshals to let me carry on. I was lying second and slowly catching up with the leading pair. At the Old man they were only a few minutes ahead of me. I pressed on to finish first (out of contention) with a decent margin ahead of them. Aparently, apart from struggling a bit they took a less than optimum route around the area of the 3 Shires stone and I never saw them while overtaking them.
Yiannis

thanks yiannis
just goes to show recceing is priceless
im still at a loss to see which way back is the best from swirl band on the map.
i think we dropped to far to the left and lost the path , finally picking it up again somewhere near nettle slack.
but then as we dropped down to the road i saw runners coming down much further to my right, at least 300mtrs
what i did was and i will admit my mind was in another place was to think red tarn inbetween cold pike and pike o blisco was blea tarn .
Iwas convinced we had to head up there.
we had both had a conversation further back and decided the checkpoint was right below us . Then Andy said no the checkpoint is another mile down the road. Then it all clicked into place. haha.
so yiannis please can you describe the best way back Do you just follow the path to three shire stone.
If so im at a loss to see where we went wrong???
having never seen that part of the lakes it totally threw me.
otherwise we had a perfect race.