Well done, Jez. Good time. I wouldn't have made the first cut-off in my current state.Originally Posted by Jez Hellewell
Well done, Jez. Good time. I wouldn't have made the first cut-off in my current state.
Me too, would have perished on Whernside in a vest! Having said that I did like the numbing feeling of the cold wind on my legs because it meant I couldn't feel how achey they were!
26 minutes faster than last year (and 400 places higher, weird!) so I'm pretty chuffed. Did it in 4:23. Aiming for sub-4 next year!
Cheers Roy. Are you struggling with injuries at the moment then ?
Great race :-)
Wind wise it was similar to last year, a strong headwind up P-Y-G, then the 8mile to Ribblehead was all headwind, sidewind up Whernside. The least wind section was from foot of Whenside descent to Ingleborough summit but the wind from there to the finish was bad!!!! allso much wetter/muddier underfoot this year, sure we had a 20hr gap in the weather but the ground stays the same as if it were still raining.
My race and time????? bitter/sweet realy ;-) having turned up last year with no training at all (except a 24mile run the weekend before just to see if i could last the distance) i came in 28th with 3:25:05.
This year i turned up race primed and a few good 20-25 miler in the legs and scraped 23rd and 3:24:30!!!!!!!!! CRAZY in my opinion, all them miles for 35secs????? so to me this year was tougher, up to the last mile and a half i was on for sub 3:20 but the headwind down the "so-called" descent of Ingleborough ;-) litterally killed me.
Overall, happy to beat last year's time, claimed a few good scalps, but I know I could of gone better :-)
Amazing support out on course and the marshalling was awsome. Thanks to all involved.
Just back from a "hair of the dog" run consisting of 2 laps of the local playing fields on jellied legs - heaven knows what the dog walkers must have thought.....
Yesterday was bloody hard work - was going Ok up to Ribblehead but had no energy whatsoever on the climb up Whernside, did have 1 or 2 moments where I thought it would put me out of my misery if I didn't make the Hill Inn cut off but then with the encouragement of my fellow back markers & 1 or 2 spectators pushed on to make it with less than 2 mins to spare. Think I was the last to leave the checkpoint after having a comfort break. Pleased to see the lady with the recorder on the way up to Inglebugger - brought a smile to my very weary face. Finished with a pw - but heck who cares - got round 1 of the most prestigous races in the calender.
Thank you to all the marshalls, support & cameraderie of fellow runners. A pleasure to meet Witton Park - initially to point out my flat tyre (!), fellow forumites and my pit stop crew for assisting in replacing aformentioned tyre after the finish.
Good to see / hear the injured fellsman person was being looked after, with nothing too serious - relatively speaking.
Last edited by Manhar; 29-04-2012 at 10:16 AM. Reason: It's Sunday
My first 3-peaks (first time i've ever been up any of them, which is an achievement in itself given i've lived in yorkshire all my 30year life). I died (not literally, like gafrymynydd claims) at the top of Ingleborough, and as a result just missed out on my 3.30 target by a few minutes. Still pretty pleased given my lack of experience and training for long races.
Thanks to all the marshalls/helpers. i tried smile/thank/thumbs up all i saw, but any after ingleborough probably just got blanked. sorry.
Last edited by Fungus Mungus; 29-04-2012 at 10:04 AM.
Glad to hear you can run pal
I can't - huge blister on the ball of my right heel
That tempo down the last mile of Wherside wasn't helpful at all was it - but a big relief when we got in
To anyone who doesn't appreciate how tough it was yesterday, of course I'm just a steady plodder - but my 3 previous efforts have been comfortably inside the cut offs - 20mins - 30 mins with a finishing time of 4:40-4:45 - there were a lot timed out this year and some of them previous finishers.
Perhaps the run off PYG added a couple of minutes and made it tighter. The wind perhaps another couple of minutes and then the underfoot similar. Even the traffic on course - there were so many walkers this year I had to go off the main trod quite often - each time you're doing that you lose efficiency and lose time.
It was bloody hard. But also rewarding knowing that I dug as deep as I could to get down that last section of Whernside just to be able to complete again and managed with 57s to spare.
Big up to the other guys that I came down with as we encouraged each other and the supporters at the side for the encouragement.
Since 2008, it's me ageing bones. Don't get me started .... (metatarsals, spine, sciatic nerve, beer, idleness).
Hate to introduce a negative to such a positive thread but yet again we had quite a few gate climbers at the stiles at around the 8 mile point .....
A massive well done to everyone who ran
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well done!
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