Stop Press! Split times for the slowers members of the fell running community!

Here are the long awaited split times - guaranteed to get you round in time for the cut off (pending no unexpected happenings!) memorise these numbers - repeat them as a mantra every day between now and 4 Aug!

BB - 50
EH - 1:48
SP - 2:22
SH - 2:57
GG - 3:32
HP - 4:19 (thats 11 minutes to spare)
DH - 4:53
Finish - 5:37

Narrative - Last year I was never more than 5 mins either side of these times (even though I was trying to run faster) and finished in 5:39. I took these splits with me on the day (in my head!) I had worked them out as percentages of Huwski's 2005 race times. I based them on a safe margin of ten minutes before the Honister Pass cut off (4 hours and 30 mins) - I had hoped to be ahead of them but I was bang on or behind at nearly every check point. I was quite surprised to look back at them last week and realise how close the estimated finish time was to real finish time!