wfra.org.uk for a link to Alastair Tyes photo's from the top of the Pyg Track.
Big thank's to the organisers. Great race. I died on the Pyg Track. I will be back next year, an incentive if ever there was, to get myself back in shape after a few years on the slide. Eager for the results to see just how far I have fallen...
am I the only one entered/getting excited about this year's race...?
I did it 2 years ago when it was shortened/lowered, so hoping to actually do all the 1000's this time!
I will be out. Had not planned to do this...but never really plan anything. Looking forward to it. Looking to recce a bit this weekend. Hope it hurts me and gives me as much pleasure/pain as the peris did. :-)
It was a tough call between Ennerdale or the Welsh 1000s, but I'm afraid Ennerdale won on the basis that I'd never done it before whereas I have (sort of) done the Welsh 1000s, all be it on the altered route two years ago!Originally Posted by DazTheSlug
am I the only one entered/getting excited about this year's race...?
I did it 2 years ago when it was shortened/lowered, so hoping to actually do all the 1000's this time!
(By the way, I'm sure I remember mapping out the altered route and it actually being longer than the normal route. A lot less ascent of course!)
Unfortunately I am having to work in Scotland so miss it for the 2nd year on the bounce.
Well it was fruitless of me doing Ennerdale because I'd never done it before because it was altered to a low level route! Did the Welsh 1000m Peaks go ahead on the proper route? Sod's law it did! How was the race?
Indeed the full route was carried out after the RO almost decided to run the 'safe' route. Was a great day out. Managed 13th on my first attempt at it so quite chuffed. Some cracking scrambling as well as good running to be had. So so many walkers on that pyg track on way home. Killer.
Nice one! What time did you do it in? Sounds like I should have gone for the Welsh 1000s instead then!
epic, epic day on the Welsh 1000m's
on final approach of drive in to Llanberis (7:30am) faced with biblical rain/cracks of lightning I felt sure the route would be lowered
a power cut at the community centre added to the "under siege" feeling, but registration proceeded without a murmur, and there was just time to get stuff together and stumble on to the bus to take us to Aber
after sheltering under a bridge from the rain, and clapping the walkers off at 8:30 we formed up for the start, to be told by the RO that we were going to do the full route... unless yer actual lightning started up again, in which case we might be turned back from either Aryg or Llewelyn...
... buuuut never got quite that bad - conditions on Dafydd were pretty atrocious though and there was a lot of doubling-back-and-to looking the "wall" checkpoint - which I eventually gave up on - grateful just to head downwards, see Tryfan and know I was at least in the right valley!
I enjoyed the scramble up Y Gribin (never done it before) before pushing through one last bit of crappy weather on the top of Glyder Fawr
then managed my best ever descent to PyP, following the "red spot" path almost in it's entirety
the sun was now out and the Pyg/Miners' tracks were swarming with walkers, but was just happy to dry out and know I was going to complete
just over 7 hours (had been hoping for 6:15) but SO happy
jog back down to Llanberis was absolutely gorgeous and was impossible to believe it was the same day as compared to the morning
results (inc. splits) are out: http://www.welsh1000m.org/results/index.html
Colin Donnelly only managed 2nd this year
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