Yes, thank you Noel, and everyone else involved, including DrPatrickBarry, RaceTheSweeper and all the other marshalls – I hope I said thank you in person. I was certainly thinking ‘Thank you’, even if I didn’t have enough puff to get the words out clearly.
It was great!
I hope it becomes a fixture, because it will take a dozen years or so for me to refine my route choices. The chap I was catching towards the end (who shall remain nameless, Carlos Bedson, Cheshire Hill Racers) discerned that I am a poor descender and deliberately led me over the Dragon’s Back rather than round the easy track. I trusted his judgement after seeing him lead a posse of runners down a path (a path!) to the bottom of Jacob’s Ladder while I struggled through shoulder-deep bracken on the other side of the clough! His ‘Dragon’s Back’ tactic worked and he beat me comfortably. We had a good laugh about it at the end. What a superb fell race!