Yes, well done to both of you. Very swift times. Sorry I missed it.
Yes, well done to both of you. Very swift times. Sorry I missed it.
Lancslad
They did really well - an awesome run from both of them. They were together until about Kirk Fell, then split up: there were plenty of pacers so that wasn't an issue. I joined Chris for leg 5, & he was still going strong apart from slowing down a bit on the steep downhill bits, & the usual mental vagueness. Usual for knackered runners I mean, not usual for Chris! Conditions were actually pretty good I think - I was up on the fells most of the day myself. There was a bit of a cold wind, but not quite enough to slow you down significantly, & it would have been behind them on leg 2. It was warmer on leg 5 than during the day, as the wind dropped completely. One or two short snow showers, but not amounting to much, & little on the ground apart from helpful hardpack on the Scafell Pike bouldery bits. They had good visibility nearly all day. I'm sure Chris will write something up for his blog once he's back in working order.
Andy Robinson
Runfurther committee member
Helsby Running Club
I was beginning to doubt it was very wintery round, having been up on Leg 3 today. But then I took the direct line up from Rosset to bowfell... The dogs and I were climbing on iced grass towards the top and I was needing to kick steps in the thankfully hard snow. Ice axe and some crampons would have been more helpful than two mutts and fell shoes - far too 'interesting', I'm not sure how the dogs made some of the sections I was too busy concentrating on myself, other sections they were shoved up - too committing to retrace our steps. Which was did folks take? Because very sensibly there were no footprints on the line I took (straight up from the wee cairn) - I was glad to see there were lots of fell running footsteps on the rest of the lines. Good effort all round.
'Normal' people are the ones you don't know very well.
I don't know these guys, but having trained more this year on the route I'm somewhat in awe of anyone that achieves this, but anything around 20 hours is brilliant! Well done those guys!
I M Povey New Marske Harriers
http://manwithoutashed.blogspot.com
Spoken to Caz, he's fine but legs a bit stiff - because he hasn't done enough big hill work! He got his daffodill round and managed to put his "stripeys" on for the final road section, there's a photo somewhere apparently, which must be worth seeing :sneaky:.
The end is nigh
Great work both. Typical of Chris to 'have a go' at short notice and pull of a pretty damn good time. Thanks for everyone keeping us posted - great stuff.