Great event today, very well organised, and a cracking little area. Shame about the weather - s'pose that depends on your nav ability but personally I would have preferred it a bit more scenic!
Good to see the rules been applied properly on leg 4. The CP was at the end of a fantastic trod/path which ran all the way from the start field, so there was no real excuse!
Just got back from the relays. I have a enjoyable day, despite the weather & our team being D/Q'd for missing 2 check points.
Many thanks to all the organisers for putting on an excellent event, the grub was good too & very welcoming.
Hope the marshal who has broken their leg got to hospital swiftly & hope they are ok.
The marshals who stood out there all day today are heroes, it must have been awful.
Thanks to everyone involved.
Well if its sanctioned then thats fine. At least it sets it clear for everyone else to do the same. Whats good enough for one athlete is good enough for all.Originally Posted by delicious
Salford didn't enter the relays due to it being the National Road Relays the day before.
Just seen Mrs Stagger's Nav map.
Good to see the clag was down other wise it would just have been follow mi leader again.
Its time we got back to proper navigation and let the runners attempt to pick the route.
PS She says well done to the organisers for a fab day
Problem was though Trevor, there's not that many features to navigate from and it really works in the favour of the local teams or those that have managed to recce thoroughly.Just seen Mrs Stagger's Nav map.
Good to see the clag was down other wise it would just have been follow mi leader again.
Its time we got back to proper navigation and let the runners attempt to pick the route.
PS She says well done to the organisers for a fab day
Features all over the place, fences, streams, valleys, rocky bits, edges of forests - what more do you need? Yes the mist was down - just meant you couldn't see so many of the features and the bigger picture.
Very enjoyable day out, only pain in the proverbial was the queue on the M6 on the way back.
Great piccies Tomsk. Pity you didn't get any at the start of leg 3 when the clag really set in. On the navvi leg we passed about 4 teams before CP2, but then a slight detour to Blake Fell between CP4 and CP5 lost us about 10 mins. I don't think we the only ones scratching around in the clag.
All in all a challenging day out and considering we were on unknown and unreccied terrain we did a good job.
Thanks to CFR for putting on the event and Wilfs for the usual grub at the finish. All the day cost me was £8 and that was my share of the fuel costs. Beat that !
I agree to a degree up to CP2 was OK CP2-3 not bad - CP5 - Finish also OK.
But CP3-4-5 was hard work - there were lots of pairs struggling - even the fence that runs from Blake Fell to Burnbank doesn't have any helpful junctions on it to help if you are going CP4-5.
I've done 2 FRA relays now - + several races that needed navigation and today is the first time I've had difficulty reading the terrain.
NB. I'm not one of those that would call for the NAV leg to be abolished.
A Blackberry was found by a team mate and handed in today. It belonged to a Mr Helm.
If anyone knows them, will you please let them know.
I can tell you that too - the big climb was either awesome or awful depending on your piont of view! (Also the drive back down the M6 was testing and tough going!) Feeling it for the first three who were DSQ'd, especially Tim cos he almost needed a parachute on the last descent!
Great running and a great day - big big thanks to CFR
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