Quote Originally Posted by chris smale View Post
It is a good point there Harry H.

I think that (say) Fred Reeves' record at Grasmere which is his biggest moment is great.

Rob Jebb ran 10 seconds slower in recent years - the time you and I battled our way to the top of the hill and you left me on the way down. In a two mile race, and assuming similar conditions 10 seconds is a massive difference.

Fred Reeves and Tommy Sedgewick probably trained exclusively for those kinds of races. For Rob I guess it was just another challenge amongst all kind of running and cycling races and in the context of what he did over the season it was fabulous.

There is too little appreciation of short steep fell races; by that I mean they are a bit marginal in the calendar or indeed not in the FRA calendar at all.
im glad to see im not the only one who thinks like this ido think the fra seriously consider some short steep classics as championships