Three Peaks Fell Race

[martin]

Lots of photos by John Heald on
http://www.photoboxgallery.com/HealdPix/5415309

[moo]

loads of forumites looking hot

[clodhopper]

I can't find any of me anyhere

[Marvin]

loads of forumites looking hot

I can't find any of me anywhere

You obviously aren't hot enough!!!

[clodhopper]

You obviously aren't hot enough!!!

evidently

[Graham Breeze]

Reversal of Fortune

It is perhaps noteworthy that the 459 finishers in the 2007 PPP is the highest ever.

In the early 1990s typically 400+ finished, eg

94 431
95 416
96 415
97 427

However with the exception of 2000 when the race was an English Champ counter (409) by the late 1990s the race appeared to be in serious decline:

98 372
99 333
(01 F&M)
02 207
03 205

2004 saw the hooplah of the 50th Anniversary Race, Championship status etc and 407 finished.

Conventional wisdom then on the organising committee was that after 2004 numbers would continue to decline, but instead the race has regained and now surpassed its previous popularity:

2005 340
2006 363
2007 459

And rightly so?

[grough editor]

loads of forumites looking hot

Clodhopper, what number were you. I'll search my files and see if you're on any.

[brett]

I am so glad to be one of them!!!

It is perhaps noteworthy that the 459 finishers in the 2007 PPP is the highest ever.

[grough editor]

I can't find any of me anyhere

Oop! Above reply was meant to be to Clodhopper - sorry, must take more water with it.

[clodhopper]

Oop! Above reply was meant to be to Clodhopper - sorry, must take more water with it.

509, grough.