Quote Originally Posted by RichK View Post
15 minutes faster for me this year, but after a rubbish winter of endless colds and chest infections, I suspect that all of that improvement was down to the perfect ground.

I'm surprised how many people are totally wrecked today, regardless of their position in the field. My theory is that we all went way quicker than we'd planned - I kept telling myself to slow down on the first half, sadly the legs didn't listen and then they fell off somewhere after Brown Knoll!
I've only done this race twice, but on both occasions a good portion of the field go like the clappers for the first 5 miles hit the climb on the other side and start walking, then presumably staggering from Brown Knoll onwards.....seems like a 5 mile fell race strategy followed by some awful war of attrition ?