Skiddaw Race

[Daleside]

thats an extremely useful map dominion thank you very much for sourcing it and posting it - you see I was going to take that special alternative route part of the way up but now that i see you have to stick to the path - i shall rethink my race strategy...........

Thanks for your help jimbob - i'm not very computer literate and became confused at your very helpful instructions (as they were more than one line long!)

[alwaysinjured]

thats an extremely useful map dominion thank you very much for sourcing it and posting it - you see I was going to take that special alternative route part of the way up but now that i see you have to stick to the path - i shall rethink my race strategy...........

Thanks for your help jimbob - i'm not very computer literate and became confused at your very helpful instructions (as they were more than one line long!)

So are you allowed the BG dodge over the corner and gate before the latrigg car park?

[GeoffB]

So are you allowed the BG dodge over the corner and gate before the latrigg car park?

That shortcut had never occurred to me before last week when I saw Yiannis, Steve Cliff & their team disappear up there.

[Daleside]

Oh dear - what have i started! I was just joking about the short cut - i was just trying to show some appreciation for the map that David said was pointless but I had gone to great lengths to get on here

i'd better keep me mouth shut next time.

[Baggins]

Oh dear - what have i started! I was just joking about the short cut - i was just trying to show some appreciation for the map that David said was pointless but I had gone to great lengths to get on here

i'd better keep me mouth shut next time.

No don't lets find some more shortcuts you did go to all that bother after all

That path up Jenkin Hill does zig zag a bit how about going more direct after the style

Bill

[dominion]

Oh dear - what have i started! I was just joking about the short cut - i was just trying to show some appreciation for the map that David said was pointless but I had gone to great lengths to get on here

i'd better keep me mouth shut next time.

You're most welcome DS! Just don't shoot the messenger if the map that I sourced and published at great cost and effort sends you off course... Personally I'd go with Bill. Straight up, shortest route.

I take it the path is surfaced with non-slip tarmac and handrails to help me??

[Chris K]

Well I think we all followed the organisers instructions not to shortcut and to follow the short flagged section off Jenkin Hill. Commiserations to the guy who fell just behind me but well done to the other runner who saw the fall and stopped to help (throwing his own race), and the CFR runner who carried on to raise the alarm for St Johns Ambulance. I gather the marshal team got to the runner first and got him straight into A&E for treatment.
Congrats to the winner on his first ever fell race - 2 mins lead at the summit cut to 8 seconds at the finish. Excellent tea and cakes afterwards, oh and a good run by Marrow despite last nights late drinking. Any blisters anyone?

[Daleside]

damn, did I miss Marrow again!!

I wanted to give you all a cheer at the top ( I've been ill - cant run up hill) - I got three quarters of the way up ullock pike en route and had to sit down, rest then turned back.

any results?

[Brummy John]

Couldn't get a pass out for Sunday, so sneaked out Saturday afternoon and did it on my own. Now I know what straight up and down means.

[ChrisG]

Pictures are up:

http://www.keswicklakedistrict.co.uk/fellraces/skd2007/

Have not seen the results yet though.

I hope the bloke who fell was ok, he looked to have taken a nasty knock on the head when I saw him.