High Peak Marathon

[daz h]

How did you & The Nuns fare Daz.....?
Never got a chance to chat...
After prize-giving you dissapeared rapido....
To a better place !

(PS Well done in your first Watershed... "always a coming of age".... be careful you might get hooked )

we did well
navigation was difficult through certain places , those peat bogs throw you out big style, but another great learning curve for me. Felt okay at the end and my legs are not aching at all.
the navigation doesnt daunt me now either
feeling that i have the confidence to go for it.
glad i managed to get a place.

but i def carried too much in my rucksack, prob being over cautious, didnt need all the fluid and certainly way too much food.
The only bit of cold that i noticed was on my feet really but starting to learn just to keep plodding on, singing to myself, etc etc and probably wasnt to daunted because id done that edale to marsden and back epic the other month.

helping each other is the key to these events, like if you think you have strayed a bit shout up, you need someone to get a top or bar out of your sack, shout up.
ive said it before but i really dont know where id be without having my fellow fellrunners as friends.
so many kind people out there on the way round.

[Zlod]

Does anyone have any gruesome maneating bog stories? I went up to my waist somewhere near Outer Edge. The lads were laughing at me until they realised I was flailing for the solid side and sinking. I also managed to find a bottomless 1 foot diameter bog that my left leg found, but not my right.

Team Vasque North won in 9h14m. Team Vasque South were second in 9h28m. High Peak Rollerbladers were third. I think the northerners had the advantages of local knowledge and Mark Hartell (all four of them looked to be running well).

I was impressed by the result from Dark Peak ladies.

[IanDarkpeak]

Does anyone have any gruesome maneating bog stories? I went up to my waist somewhere near Outer Edge. The lads were laughing at me until they realised I was flailing for the solid side and sinking. I also managed to find a bottomless 1 foot diameter bog that my left leg found, but not my right.

Team Vasque North won in 9h14m. Team Vasque South were second in 9h28m. High Peak Rollerbladers were third. I think the northerners had the advantages of local knowledge and Mark Hartell (all four of them looked to be running well).

I was impressed by the result from Dark Peak ladies.

Hi Zlod

If you went in just before OE that would be the top of Bull clough, the home of the Bog Monster although he does get about a bit, it is reputed to be bottomless! During the Grin and Bear it last year we had to pull out a lot of walkers including one poor lad up to his armpits. There was a mixed group of about 8 souls just in front of me that took it direct, Bad move!! I took our team about 50m left and you can just hop over it.

It was definitely wetter than the last time I crossed it, I managed to stay out of the worst of (only knee deep in places) but I did pull Marvin out just before Swains Head I think.

and yes well done to the gals from Dark Peak.

Are you hobble-ing next week?

[gordonsalive]

Well done the Rollerbladers - superb result! See you out and about soon.

Cheers

Gordonsalive (aka Gladys Over)

[Grouse]

Thanks and well done everyone - lots of thanks to the organisers and marshalls again, they do a fantastic job. Marko managed to evade the bogmonster this year but unfortunately a bog trashed Julien's knee when he went in it and the top half of him carried on. By Kinder he was suffering badly with it and we lost a lot of time but he rallied and we were dead chuffed to hold our position with Haf Man Half Totley bearing down on us!

[Marvin]

It was definitely wetter than the last time I crossed it, I managed to stay out of the worst of (only knee deep in places) but I did pull Marvin out just before Swains Head I think.

Are you hobble-ing next week?

Isn't it amazing what you can forget in such a short time (maybe it's an age thing), but thanks for pulling me out Ian. I wasn't in very deep, but just couldn't move either leg. It was a particularly glutinous bit of bog!

And planning to hobble next weekend if the weather is bad.

[Zlod]

Oh wow, it's nice to know that bog has a name. I feel almost privileged to have got covered in brown filth from the bog monster itself.

Are you hobble-ing next week?

I'm in the hobble. I was worrying about it while running round the High Peak on Saturday morning!

[GeoffB]

Thanks and well done everyone - lots of thanks to the organisers and marshalls again, they do a fantastic job. Marko managed to evade the bogmonster this year but unfortunately a bog trashed Julien's knee when he went in it and the top half of him carried on. By Kinder he was suffering badly with it and we lost a lot of time but he rallied and we were dead chuffed to hold our position with Haf Man Half Totley bearing down on us!

Well done guys. I hadn't realised Julien had injured himself. I'm sure he'll be fine, though - he's a tough old bugger!

Especially well done to Double Dee - we drafted him in to our team on Thursday afternoon. His recent training had only been 6 mile runs at the most, but we still managed to get round in just over 11 hours.

Sorry, almost forgot - thanks to all the brilliant marshals. The pizza at Swains Head was the best. Why on earth anyone wants to sit at one of those control points all night long is beyond me!

[Luv Shack]

Preliminary Results are posted at http://www.highpeakclub.union.shef.a...m/hpm2008.html

[skyline]

Just a quick note to say thanks to HPM organisers for the weekend.

It never ceases to amaze me why a group of pretty girls will come and stand around on a windswept hillside so a bunch of old pharts like us can go out and play in the mud for hours! Anyway, for whatever reason, thanks to them and everyone involved, it was another good do, although at times we didn’t feel that it was.

A particularly low point was navigating the “North West Passage” successfully then missing the control at Bleaklow Head by ½K, but at least we took 2 other teams with us ………..

As we staggered back to the finish, just in time to miss Prizegiving, we were in half a mind to chuck the towel in after 15 events. But, there must be something in the veggie stew because 2 bowls of that and 5 pints of Moonshine later whilst wearing my collectors item t-shirt it all seemed like a good idea to try and do 20 events before I die.


Jim Fulton (one of the blokes with Cox out)