well you are a damn fine looking bloke...Originally Posted by Will-Moorlands
well you are a damn fine looking bloke...
Anyone know if there are any photos of this race? There appeared to be a huge contingent of photogs out on the day, (and a lovely day it was), but I can find neither hide nor hair of them anywhere on the tinterweb. Did they ALL forget to put SD cards in their cameras?
There's some video here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5PfxVR_w3QE
and here:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=At3HT2qGiEQ
Think there are some on the High Sports website.
Ah, got em.
if anyone else was interested
http://www.highsports.co.uk/blog/lon...ley-race-2014/
Anyone else on this tomorrow...?
Possible strong winds expected... Hoping it's clear enough to find my way up and down all those climbs in the second half....
Last edited by Travs; 06-02-2016 at 08:47 AM.
I'm in, also Titterstone Clee this morning.
The nav is pretty straightforward in the valleys race, one slightly tricky bit on Callow, where you can see runners going up the valley infront of you, but you have to go right, into the valley to a CP, then left and up. Nice race.
Very challenging race today, I can see now why it has a fearsome reputation. As I'd been told, pacing is the key...
Conditions underfoot were pretty difficult due to the rain, however the weather on the day was pretty good, with the exception of a cold wind...
Started to have a bad patch going down Minton Batch, the group I was in (containing DaveMole) started to drop me, and knowing the hard stuff was still to come, and needing to mix things up a bit, took an alternative route... Everyone else went right, contouring round the hills, but I went leftish, up and over, which incidentally is the route on the Pete Bland map... I don't think there is much in it, however I did lose at least a couple of minutes due to my own idiocy.... Being on my own on unfamiliar hills, I decided to be safe and consult the map, unfortunately my wet gloves had inadvertently rubbed off all my markings and checkpoint locations, leaving me alone with nobody in sight, and not 100% where the next checkpoint was. Luckily I relied on memory and was soon back on course, but I definitely didn't take the optimum line. A few people behind me were quite aggressively shouting me back when I split from the 'main course' which was a bit uncalled for, I guess they were just trying to be helpful, but it was a free course between checkpoints.
Last climb was the real toughie, and the final descent on shot legs was difficult, especially with the finish line and crowd right at the bottom waiting in anticipation for the comedy crashes...
2hrs26 in the end, would have taken that before the start. No idea where I finished, somewhere in the top half so can't complain, seeing as I would class this race as a bit too short for my liking. Not that I'd finish much higher in a longer race..!
One thing I really liked about this race was the view of the front runners for the first mile or so, due to the almost immediate winding climb out of the valley. Although didn't glean much insider info, they were just doing what I was doing, but slightly faster...!
Apart from the couple of miles across the top of the Mynd, it's pretty much all up and down, a real good course.
Thanks to all the marshalls and organisers for another fantastic race yesterday! Just wondered if anyone knew of any links to the photos that were being taken yesterday??Spotted a few paps out and about.
Cheers
yes, another cracking LMV on Sunday. Harder than it looks!
The main photos are here:
https://www.flickr.com/photos/70907794@N00/sets/
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