Saw a few with baregrips who didn't seem to be having problems, my mudclaws were fineOriginally Posted by Insider
Some prefered BAREGRIPS
Saw a few with baregrips who didn't seem to be having problems, my mudclaws were fineSome prefered BAREGRIPS
....wore mudclaws - only slipped once - on the grass descending to the Wrynose Pass - but then I am a very slow descender ....
272s I wore were great, until they came into contact with wet rock! But then what does grip on such surface?
Great run today, thanks to all the marshalls who stood out in the pissing rain and the St Johns Ambulance crew who were patching up the many walking wounded (one woman sat in the landrover with a horrible gash across her shin, anyone know how she fared?)
The weather cleared out for all the tricky nav around Blisco, I blew up a bit at the bottom, but crammed a packet of glucose tablets in my cakehole which seemed to do the trick. The fact that I managed a monster pb of 23 mins is more a reflection of my pitiful performance last year.
Will be back next year for more!:thumbup:
The lady with the gashed leg was my clubmate Gaynor, she was ok but we dropped her at the hospital on the way home (where she was met by her own support crew) as she was going to need sone cleaning / patching up! Will see her tomorrow so will know better then how she's doing.
Really enjoyed the race but struggled badly with cramp on the way up to Lingmoor. For what it's worth my Mudclaws were great, except on wet rock (which my sore / bruised arse proves!) but as someone else said - what is?!
Cheers Starsky, glad to hear she was ok, she seemed to be bearing it very well, hope she can be back running soon.
I also started to get pangs of cramp up Lingmoor, managed to fend it off with nuun & gels, and my walsh pb elite extremes performed flawlessly, I just steered away from as much wet rock as I could.
I had Salomons on. On the plus side they were very comfy and they don't allow any movement of my foot when contouring but not quite as grippy as mudclaws when descending on the sodden grass. Only ended on my backside once which was less than many.
i had mi mudclaws on fell once gashed my hand
got stuck in a bog n went over does that count as a fall (guess it does)
n many near falls
is this why its called fell racing!
thanks marshalls n helpers
p.s did anyone crooss the ford at the start looked quite deep!
Great race. Thanks to all who organised and marshalled! Enjoyed the man's commentary as we were queueing to register. One less entrant than last year and he says he puts it down to the bad weather!
I always hear that fell runners are a friendly bunch so I thought I'd approach one of the better ones, Carl Bell, when I saw him hanging around at the end. I said 'How did you do?' And he says, 'Yeah, not bad', or something like that. We spoke for a bit and it was only later when I looked at the results board that I saw that he'd won! Nothing he said suggested he'd done so well. Well done!
Hardly looked up enough to appreciate the views, but did glance back when I was near the top of Wetherlam and it was amazing.
Great day.
I walked the route in reverse yesterday, some of you may have seen me with my camera.
Anyway Ive just done a very short Blog of a few short video clips I made. They are not very good quality.
For some reason they were loaded twice which I can't alter, count down and start on the 7th one.
The clips are all on Wetside Edge heading for the 3 Shires Stone.
The first is of the leaders I think and the last is is of the very last three runners at that stage.
http://3shiresfellracewalk.blogspot.com/
Dave.
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