Hope you went back up..?Originally Posted by harv
I was sitting in Brackenclose car park at 8:00am this morning waiting for an aspirant BG'er to appear thinking how much the day reminded of the 2010 race. Weather conditions were almost a carbon copy (at ground level).
I have fond memories of that day as coming off the summit of Scafell Pike I spotted two runners in front and they were definitely in the race as they had numbers pinned to their chests (I wasn't falling for that one!) They opened up a gap on the rocky descent from the summit and I just about ran my bits off trying to catch them all the way down Brown Tongue. I felt right pleased with myself as I passed them near the bottom and then tried really hard to open up a gap. At the fell gate a marshall pointed out to me that I was in the Wasdale fell race and this was the checkpoint for a different event ( I think the 3 peaks yacht race?) and that my checkpoint was back up there on Lingmell Nose!
My first thoughts were a few expletives beginning with B and as I'm not one to quit I trudged back up, passing the two runners still descending, who looked somewhat surprised,and finally hauled my sorry ass over the line in just over seven hours!
Lesson learnt and I haven't done the race since!
Seriously though respect to all who attempted it today, it must have been very tough in the conditions
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