Quote Originally Posted by crowhill View Post
Interesting. Last year I was way way behind Phil Winskill approaching the penultimate checkpoint (he was a tiny dot on the horizon). He went down and up and I trundled round the skyline and ended up in front of him. Phil went from a guaranteed 2nd to 6th and lost about 8 minutes. My advice is not to do it if you want to finish as quickly or as far up the field as possible.
Yeah, but don't you wish you had our respect for trying something so quixotic during such a high-profile fell race.