Blakey Blitz

[Deejay]

An excellent race with a downhill start and an uphill finish and one heck of a steep climb in the middle!

[TheReverand]

Sweeet, ive bagged a lift and foresaken my first claim duties in the Hartlepool 5 mile!! So I shall be at Blakey on Sunday, god willing , and Im hoping for a stormer as ive had some blinding training sessions in the last couple of weeks

[Bruce]

Not my neck of the woods, but happen to be on holiday nearby, so looking forward to giving this one a go. Seen the map on the website - is the route on the ground pretty obvious?

[Martyn]

Its not an intuitive route but all the more interesting for that.. The climb out of Rosedale gives you a couple of routes up. If misty the paths across from Rosedale to Fryup head are a problem and I have lost the route a couple of times training up there. The main problem is when you are down in Fryup heading up for the head of the valley. Once past the barns there should be a marshal directing you to the right/west up to the rabbit warrens and away from the lower ground which is a SSSI area. Loads of people have pushed their way through this area in the past and we need to stay away from that section. Dave or Bob will probably mention this at the start no doubt. There are another couple of local knowledge cuts you can make but ill keep them to myself! I think its a great route though and all thanks to Bob Lillie for getting this route into a race format last year

[A.P.E Knott]

bloody Hell,that was hard !

[Deejay]

A polar wind on Blakey Ridge but positively tropical in the valleys!
A fine race

[Hes]

'Polar' does indeed describe the wind on top but it was a brilliant race. I thoroughly enjoyed it despite it being rather gruelling bog trotting when the wind was against us.

[Ambrosia Kid]

A polar wind on Blakey Ridge but positively tropical in the valleys!
A fine race

Fine indeed, Great fryup Dale is brilliant ,along with top of Rosedale.. That wind sorted me out, needed to put my feet up after that last climb to finish, hope to be back next year, see you there DJ to improve yet again old chap... Hes, thanks for reminding me about the windy bog trotting, it was still iffy with the wind behind you also....

[TheReverand]

A fine run out, if a little harder than I anticipated thanks to everyone involved in putting it on and I hope the lady who hadnt showed by the presentation is safe and sound Roll on the Guisborough moors race

[Tuffer]

To confirm the lady was found, she finished in just over 3 hours, so seems like a case of the last one out on the course.

Well that was a terrific fell race and route with no real let up at any point, the second half of two ascents (including the climb to the finish) and one descent plus the gale force head wind meant that it was a very testing second half and stamina sapper.