Quote Originally Posted by grimmer View Post
From the results there were 194 finishers, 49 dnfs. So what happened to the rest of the people who entered?
The last start list had around 370 names on it.
A huge number of people just didn't show up. I'm amazed. Any ideas?
I didn't show due to an injury picked up on the Saunders the week before. Thinking there would be a big interest due to it being a Championship race and, being limited numbers, I thought there might have been a reserve list. So, I posted my reserve entry on the forum in case anyone wanted it. No takers. As for the others, I've no idea - maybe January optimism when the calendar is glanced at turns to grimness when, six months later, people realise that there intentions to get fitter have faded into the bottom of a beer glass and Wasdale is just a bit too hard.