Tour de Helvellyn

[that_fjell_guy]

I guess you'll all be out on the route now!! Good luck tho' people!! Have fun....

[Toreador]

If the conditions are half as bad as they are here in York, the dropout rate is going to be pretty high.

Still wish I was there though

[that_fjell_guy]

I'm sat in an office near Dumfries and if its raining down there like it is here I'm glad I couldn't enter again!!

[protodoc]

Just run 8.5 miles near Harrogate and came back looking like I'd been in a river, lord knows what they're going through up Helvellyn:w00t:

[that_fjell_guy]

'Suppose you're all in the pub now! :thumbup:

[Toreador]

Results are up
http://results.sportident.co.uk/home...f-afa5c576b958

209 entered, 148 started, 128 finished

[IWCharters]

We should boycott SportSunday Event Photography Ltd and we should not encourage them to attend fell races because they want to prevent amateur photographers from taking and posting photos on flickr and the FRA Forum.

This is what happened today at the Tour de Helvellyn - have a read

http://www.blipfoto.com/entry/2572280

[Rob Furness]

We should boycott SportSunday Event Photography Ltd and we should not encourage them to attend fell races because they want to prevent amateur photographers from taking and posting photos on flickr and the FRA Forum.

This is what happened today at the Tour de Helvellyn - have a read

http://www.blipfoto.com/entry/2572280

Bit off hand. Anyone is free to head to the hills and take photos, it's a public area so nobody can stop it. I understand they want to make a living, but that hasn't got anything to do with an amateur wanting to take his or her own pictures. It's nowt to do with them.

[richpips]

Any pro photographer worth their salt shouldn't be bothered by what other photographers are doing.

Of course that is if they are confident in the knowledge that they'll be getting the good shots.

I quite enjoy taking pictures at an event where there are lots of other photographers.

A pro photographer will always sell their work if it is good.

[MarkL]

The weather forecast is still pretty grim:

http://www.mwis.org.uk/ld.php?fdate=121222

I especially like the bit saying "Walking or any mobility very difficult from fairly low levels upwards in morning"

I've not bothered to waste my time clicking on the MWIS link to see what it might say. However, it was so "grim" that I ran as far as Grisedale Tarn in shorts. I put my leggins on there, but I could have taken them off again in Patterdale if I could have been bothered to stop.

I didn't notice any ferocious gusts and the wind speed possibly maxed out at 30 ish mph? "Mobility very difficult from fairly low levels"? Nope. OK, I was shuffling a bit after 28 miles.

It was wet though, I'll have to admit that.

So, glad I didn't die today, as the above wouldn't have made such a catchy epitaph...

But it was a great day out in the hills. And Joe's special Carrot soup at the end was fantastic.