Fellsman

[Stolly]

Look at it the other way round though - if that person we were with was on their own out in Fleet Moss and had a panic attack, the consequences don't bear thinking about. So, unlucky for me maybe but those rules are there for the safety of all, if you enter you accept them so it's just tough, really, if it holds you back a bit. You can always enter again the following year!
And I think we've all felt the guilty relief when we get grouped with someone who is confident of the right route across.

Its not the holding back - you get the time added back anyway - its the fact that when I've been running (even for a short time, let alone all day) I get hot and stopping for 40 odd minutes means that I can cool down, quite badly. This was especially the case in 2009 when there had been a deluge of wind and rain over Blea Moor which also blew away the Cray checkpoint tent. Waiting for 40 minutes in a pig truck, completely open to the prevailing wind, was worse than the Blea Moor deluge and that was really darn tooting bad itself!

And anyway like you said the rules are the rules but in an ironical way its an instance of a safety requirement being not very safe at all