Quote Originally Posted by creaky View Post
dr morris said " We managed 190 points on day1 with 5mins to spare, 135 on day 2 with 25 seconds to spare (Medium Score), bringing us in 90th overall of 205 starting teams in our class, which makes us 'top half of the field'
Very pleased for a first MM. "

That was good going i reckon...we got 180 on day1 with 20 mmins in hand but nothing to go for having chickened on the big hills and crossed the road early ( but we did get all on the west side. second day we over egged it on that horrible Baugh Fell ( if you spit out the name sounds what i thought of it) a looong way back from the road crossing saw us very late and due to penalties only ended up with 90 or so points....bah humbug.
Agree M6 was horrible had to leave it at poplar and use A500 for a bit.
Seems like TeamBath (Tom and I) were right with you guys - 190 points on Saturday after a good run and good route choice. Not so hot Sunday - we took a long eastwards leg onto Swarth Fell for 90 points but an awful long tough run back down to the road crossing, and then we struggled with the run-in back along the wall line so finished 20+ minutes late to pick up just 67 points. Still half-way through the field in the Vets handicap!

Re the exit route - it was very ambiguous, I was going to go straight along the bridleway on the basis that the out of bounds areas are drawn on either side, partner convinved me that we needed to go round, and so did all other competitors around us. If we couldn't use this route, a simple sign on the gate would have made it perfectly clear.

We had the joys of the M6 and M5 all the way back to Bath.... not as bad as the journey up! And the wind chill on Friday night at about 10 as we pitched the tent was .... well, seriously chilling! Kept warm saturday until the Wild Boar Fell bogs late in the day - three hrs in sleeping bag before any life returned to the feet.

Bring on next year!