Omm 2009

[XRunner]

Where?

Here
Then click on "Maps and Timings 2009" and select the "Combined results" for the class.
(ignore the title "OMM 2008, Seathwaite Borrowdale, Sunday 26th")

[Stef F]

Those were a very special kind of leg engulfing fairy drowning swamp tussock craftily disguised by innocent looking straw coloured long grass as far as the eye dared to see

My Adidas Swoops didn't survive

That was sooo much fun....

[Guick Dotto]

Many thanks.When I did that before I got Borrowdale!
My first OMM and I had a ball. Now I can sleepzzzzzzzzz

[stevefoster]

Those were a very special kind of leg engulfing fairy drowning swamp tussock craftily disguised by innocent looking straw coloured long grass as far as the eye dared to see

My Adidas Swoops didn't survive

That was sooo much fun....

Many thanks.When I did that before I got Borrowdale!
My first OMM and I had a ball. Now I can sleepzzzzzzzzz

Well done you two

[Spadge]

Glad you all enjoyed the swampy tussock devils.
Marshalling at AF on Saturday (No 6 on the B class, 3 from the end on Elite, + the lost all comers who kept trying to dib from other classes).
Wished I was in my tights like the rest of you instead of freezing my nuts off, but glad to be involved.
Best comment I heard was from a lass "I haven't fallen over so much since I was 5".
Will be interesting to see how long it takes for the malinia motorways to recover as some looked like " a herd of stroppy bullocks had been through".

[Wheeze]

Ah yes, checkpoint 6 on Sat! I think that was one of my better calls. Instead of miles of bloody tussocks, we opted to head south from Check 5 and pick up the north shore of Claerwen Resevoir. Nice runnable track and a fairly easy pull up to 6 at the end. It was no quicker than the direct route but saved knackering the legs for day 2!

Sorry we did not see you Moley and Missus. I did make sure I stuck my nose into every marshal tent in case you were a-lurkin but I'm not surprised we did not bump into each other. This event is bloody huge! The mountain sides looked like the fall out from an ant-hill crisis with little black specks going in all directions! Sod solitude, lets go bog-bashing together!

Not sure yet if its really my cup o'tea! And the overnight camp was......umm....challenging?! Oh yes, all apart from the Moley-Brekkie which worked REALLY well. Thanks mate!

[Jane]

We had a great time, that stretch from checkpoint 5 to 6 on the saturday did seem to go on forever though.

Not looking forward to dealing with the bag of rotting shoes!

[Lincolnrunner]

[We had a great time, that stretch from checkpoint 5 to 6 on the saturday did seem to go on forever though.]

Yes that was my lowest point of the whole weekend! it was difficult to walk through that let alone run.
Has a stormin day on Sunday..but what about CP9 on Sunday..certainly a sting in the tail!!

A fantastic and enormous event..so glad i booked a day off work today!!

Cheers

P.S if i hear the word tussock again i'll....

[Stevie]

I enjoyed the OMM. A visit to an unfamiliar and interesting area, and a good course.

With the tussocks it was down to luck whether you'd find a nice trod / quad bike track or spend miles stumbling on the tussocks. The luck factor might explain a few inconsistencies in the results between Days 1 and 2.

I was glad we were on a smaller class - occasionally we'd find ourselves on the same line as the B or C, and there were veritable highways trodden across the moor. We could run those bits at least, but for me that is the downside of the OMM (as opposed to SLMM, LAMM etc) - sheer numbers of competitors taking all the navigational challenge out of it. Much better to run Score/E/A courses.

Thanks to the checkpoint marshalls, it was pretty grim at times on Saturday, you had an unenviable job! Thanks to all the helpers and organisers. OMM organisation is first class.

[molehill]

We weren't far away Spadge, we were on CV both days (short score Sat & long score Sun). Loads came past on their way to you from other classes, about 100m away was a continual line of lemmings, trudging nose to arse over the hill.
I was surprised at how few actually bothered to try a different line, and get out of the bog - hell there's a few scars there now - looks like a 4x4 rally been through .

Most boring was Sunday, 6 hours there for 5 teams visiting but at least they seemed happier than the Saturday lot .