Quote Originally Posted by brett View Post
Out of interest, I still think the pairs are the spirit of the event.
I spoke to one of the original organisers and one of the first people to complete the event (some 35 or 40 years ago!) and we chatted about how it was always a pairs event.
It's a great thing to see pairs running in, cos of the difficulty of finding a a similar paced partner.
The record, from the start at the Community Centre, is still held by a pair from Clayton, from many years ago!
Nevertheless, a cracking run from Matt!!
Doing it in pairs is just more fun than solo!
Its the shared experience.

Anne and I don't get to run together very often - partly because we never seem to both be injury-free at the same time, and partly because attaching our kids to stakes in the ground at the finish field while we go off for a run seems to get increasingly frowned upon in this PC-age.
So it was great to do the Hobble together. Thanks for the event, Brett and all your helpers and marshals!

By the way, Daz H - we were running with a pair of Pennine runners in Sheddon Clough before CP3 on the Long Causeway. Just wondered if that was you.
Anne & I (in red & white CVFR vests) took a different route to everyone else there but appeared back at almost exactly the same position, after a wee stop.