Mount Famine

[Truck]

We'll see! Hopefully I won't almost throw up just before the finish this year...

A mouth full of vomit in never good during a sprint finish :thunbdown:

[nobbut a lad]

Pencilling this in as we speak.... I did it once before but it was probably 20 years ago! I don't remember the steep start up Elle Bank but perhaps that's changed since I did it?

Only those of us of a certain age can remember when the start didn't go up Elle Bank! I can't remember when it was changed - late 80s/early 90s perhaps?

[steviek]

We'll see! Hopefully I won't almost throw up just before the finish this year...

I'm hoping to be running at mount famine ,think I nearly puked When I did it too ,it does have that effect on you !Awesome race

[ba-ba]

looking forward to running this without the May Queen race in the legs from the previous night! (although still a race on the Thursday in the NYMs. glutton.)

[Truck]

... I nearly puked When I did it too...

Maybe we need to get someone to hold a bucket or two next to the finish!

[barnyc]

it's worth busting a gut up elle bank as whoever you are stuck behind, you'll stay there till the end of the race unless you're not careful!

there's a pic of the start on my blog if anyone wants to see it

[ba-ba]

This about sums it up:
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then this is possibly one of the worst sights you can have whilst on a fell race:
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Then later on you'll look a bit more like this:
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remind me, why am I doing this race again?
I don't know who took these (i pinched em rather unceremoniously)

[andygib1982]

Tempted to give the Pennine vest its 1st outing on this....

[GeoffB]

If anyone isn't running but can help out on the day, Mark Boulton (race organiser) has asked me to ask you to get in touch with him. His details are all on Steve Temple's excellent Hayfield Fell-races page.

[OB1]

Wednesday....not long to go...better start resting the thighs / calves and carbo-loading for this wee blast....having just noticed 3 x 1.5kg packets of ugali flour in the cupboard....maybe I should throw a ugali party on Friday night...