Edale Skyline Fell Race

[IanDarkpeak]

Great conditions, but the inability to breathe led to an early retirement for me. At least it gave me a chance to see most of the front runners come through Mam Nick.

Kit check - surely a race number is a mandatory item of kit, and failure to carry it leads to instant disqualification

Appaulling over site by some one wasn't it, might i suggest that you all get to kitcheck earlier so some of us aren't quite as rush as we were this year :w00t:
I see a Dark peak pertex nomination coming for this....

Really fast conditions today might have broken 3 hours if I'd recced some more bits of it. How much faster does everyone think it was than usual - 10 mins? Thanks to all the helpers especially the "free jelly babies" stall in Hope!

A few of us thought 10-15 minutes for a good to mid pack runner, I'm way off last years fitness but I think even I got a pb even if it was by a few seconds

Thanks to Dark Peak, what a lovely day out Impeccable organisation and really friendly marshalls. The Rescue Ale is lovely too!:thumbup:

12 cases of rescue Ale went plus donations for the food by non runners earned WMRT around £200 Big thanks there to all, Edale MRT will also get a donation but not sure how much

Met IanDarkPeak at the kit check! Did a PB too, not too difficult since it was my first time round, but I also went quite a bit faster than anticipated, at least for the first half where I beat my recce time by over half an hour... Marshalls were great, and I was *very* pleasantly surprised (and grateful!) to be offered a drink at Brown Knoll.

Good to meet many new forumites including Nutkey and Dr Pat plus the multitude of known Forumite.

Nut key the 2 on BK were both forumites RhysFR(The young fit one) and Stevers The...not so young one!

Well done to Dark Peak, it was a big operation including a massive number from the club both before, during and after. I think Andy said we had over 50 marshalls out, plus those who cooked, directed traffic, kitchecked, cleaned up etc