UKA Relays

[Clash City Rocker]

I can tell you that Leg 2 was extremely tough - both our A and B teams found it very testing terrain and tough going.

I was in the B Team NAV leg with Mrs WP. Lost 10 mins getting to CP1 - went down wrong gully!

We then came back from CP4 and ended up to high - on Blake Fell butt CP5 was Sharp Knott!
But it was clag all the way - wind - rain - for a typical club fell runner like me, I would say that only around 30% of the route was runnable.

It is strange to put Leg 1 & 4 on what were practically trail runs, and Leg 2 & 3 on routes were the first sign of a rabbit path was on the final descent fror home!

I believe that Bingley, P&B and Mercia were all DQ'd for failing to visit CP1 on Leg 4.

Maybe they thought the FRA had set a precedent at Tebay

Well organised and thanks to CFR for putting it on - but no thanks for the weather and NAV leg that you constructed!

Does that help TT

[TurboTom]

Does that help TT

Sorry alistair i had a junior moment
check out the jnr relay thread we need your input

[harrymoon]

Hi Tom

Think the three runners who missed cp1 on leg4 were Tim Davies, Alistair Brownlee and Rob HOPE? (corrected by gazj - thanks!) Someone please correct me if i'm wrong.(and I was:d)

I remember Tim mentioning he had to wait for Alistair and Rob to catch up with him at one checkpoint also

As Welshharrier says about Tim flying down the last descent needing a parachute, that was really something special to watch, worth the entrance fee alone.

Great day and thanks to all who organised and helped.

[TurboTom]

Hi Tom

Think the three runners who missed cp1 on leg4 were Tim Davies, Alistair Brownlee and Rob Jebb? Someone please correct me if i'm wrong. I remember Tim mentioning he had to wait for Alistair and Rob to catch up with him at one checkpoint also

As Welshharrier says about Tim flying down the last descent needing a parachute, that was really something special to watch, worth the entrance fee alone.

Great day and thanks to all who organised and helped.

Brownlee twice wrong.

[gazj1979]

Think the three runners who missed cp1 on leg4 were Tim Davies, Alistair Brownlee and Rob Jebb? Someone please correct me if i'm wrong. I remember Tim mentioning he had to wait for Alistair and Rob to catch up with him at one checkpoint also
Rob Hope not Rob Jebb!!

[Welsh Harrier]

Goof event.

Presumably you mean GOOD EVENT!!

Matthew Roberts wasn't far behind the front runners at the finish - with all the dsq's did Eryri win a medal - you must have done!

In which case

[IainR]

Oops yeah..

We were 4th..9 seconds of a medal...

Even without the 3 disqualified we were 7th, so a good result. We were fairly much in or around the top 10 all day so quite in the mix. 4th in the Brits and 4th at the Relays, a good year.

[Welsh Harrier]

Well done Eryri - well impressed with the turn out - my estimate of 129 teams was well beaten.

[Nee Bother]

And I thought I was being a bit pessimistic! So far:
129 Me
111 Swoop
118 Big Compass
121 Hanneke
112 Nee Bother

I was way off mark over 140 started
Thank you and well done to organisers, helpers & marshalls, I really enjoyed the event. the routes, the challenge, the clag, the cameraderie, the craic, the food ete etc.

The marshalls deserve huge thanks (i stood chatting to 2 marshals at 'pile of stones' towards the end of the day and they were freezing but remained in high spirits)

Hope the guy who was injured is ok and makes a speedy recovery.

Thanks again to all.

Ken

[IainR]

Aye, huge turn out, there was some queueing early on to get into the field, but the venue seemed to handle the numbers well.

I thought leaving would be an issue after the rain but we got off OK.

I was a bit dubious when I heard it was out there, a bit outside the lakes, looking at the map it didn't look great, but the venue was great. Leg B was a really nice varied run. Weather wasn't great but running wise it wasn't too cold.