Quote Originally Posted by Graham Breeze View Post
Agreed

Carol's record is outstanding at 116.5% of Kenny Stuart's record which in itself is outstanding and has stood for 28 years; but then Carol was also a fast road runner. Unless things have changed recently Carol also held the 2nd and 3rd fastest times ahead of Angela Mudge in 4th and over 3 minutes slower.
TBH its probably time for a new Snowdon record.... the route is now slower.. much slower if the railway isn't used..

Whilst it may still have not been broken the different terrain means its not being challenged for non-athletic reasons..

The 3000ers has stood for a similar time and I doubt that route has changed too much.

Snowdon - well Llanberis path changes so much year on year, but it was much faster 15 years ago when it was just crushed rock.. now the steps make it slower but also the rougher nature of the path, but mainly the change at the top...

I'm not sure if KS's record was set with the huge short cut higher up which is now banned... thats another factor.

Undoubtably a great record and most probably it wouldn't be broken, almost certainly, but the gap is greater than it should be..