Hi peeps. It sounds like a cracking event. I am heading back home to Cumbria for Christmas so might give it a crack. Do any of you know if there are any results on t'interweb or know the range of finishing times so I can get an idea of how much trudging in the dark I'll be doing? Time to dig out my BMC map from wherever I dumped after my last BG support duties...
I took 11 hours 50 minutes last year, and there were just 5 people slower.
Winning time in 2011 was just over 6hrs.
Thanks for the information, Toreador and Oli. Hopefully I'll be somewhere in the middle. Still haven't found that map... time to excavate the back room!
Recce'd the whole route this weekend along with wife and mate Simon (KeswickSimon on this forum). Icy in places .... very icy! Horrible going up Raise Beck, Simon took the line on the North Side of the beck (ie. on Willie Wife Moor) and was appreciably faster than us. If the weather is anything like it was today, that would be the way to go I reckon.
Was toying with the idea of doing this again, but after a slow icy circuit of the 3 Peaks yesterday, my 1 dodgy ankle has become 2 dodgy ankles so for once I'm doing the sensible thing.
Have fun :-)
200+ entries this year so far. Were there even 100 last time?
Not got out much in the last few weeks. Hoping I'll be rested rather than unfit!
Looks like I might have to knock this one on the head for this year. My GP reckons I've got hip bursitis, so unless it gets a lot better in the next week on its own, the TdH doesn't sound like a good plan. He sending me for an ultrasound scan, & if it confirms his diagnosis it'll be a cortisone injection. I can't see that happening before the end of next week, somehow.
Darn. I was hoping you'd be a bit unfit and I'd stand a chance of keeping up with you!Originally Posted by Hank
Ha! Very nice of you to say so, though I very much doubt you'll have any bother keeping up. I think I'll be setting off around 0745 if you fancy heading out together? The aim is to get back just before full darkness (i.e. no headtorch running), steady pace all the way round.
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