Great Kinder Beer Barrel Race 2009.
“DPFR’s elite team won again with a clear three minutes lead, it’s third successive victory in this gruelling race. The 8 man team comprised Oli Johnson, Rob Little, Neil Northrop, Rob Baker, Richard Guillaume, Peter Hodges, Tom Edwards and Matt Speake making his debut appearance with this well-oiled machine.
Last to start, the favourites utilised a cunning plan to gain 30 seconds or so before the climb, then pulled back lots of places on the descent, where they displayed a total disregard for personal safety
After delivery from the Snake Inn to the Edale, the 72 pints beer was summarily despatched to reduce the risk of post race dehydration. The despatch time for the beer mirrored the delivery time of 47 minutes.
Rob Davison’s much abused racing ladder suffered it’s annual outing with stoic determination, and sledged most of the precipitous descent into the Grindsbrook. Rob was in a Fat Boys Team and was unlucky enough to be overtaken by his ladder on the plateau, only to see it plummeting downhill in an abandoned manner.”
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Other photos are on DPFR photos…
Final Summer Series Race. Crashout Direct, And indeed thanks to Nicky and all the organisers and participants. Look out for the forthcoming Winter Series.
Mountain Trial : results and also this which shows the maps of the route and routes taken. Apparently “long and hot”. Have a look through, some very impressive results lurking within…
John Coe sends:-“There were a few of us Mountain Trial Novices among the strong Dark Peak contingent that travelled to Eskdale for this superbly organised event. It started with a flagged half mile to the map pick-up point, which was the first we knew of the course ahead of us. There were 3 courses – Men’s Long and Short and Women’s. All were apparently excellent, but the given spec of 16m/8000 didn’t quite prepare those of us in the Long… our route traversed the Wasdale side of the Scafell range to Seathwaite Fell and Allen Crags in Borrowdale, then crossed Bowfell etc to Wrynose and a long climb to Great Carrs, before dropping into the Duddon via a choice of checkpoints. The sting in the tail was a hideous crawl through the woods below Harter, followed by a leg sapping finale of knee deep bog and heather, and a hard to find final checkpoint. Most of us thought it was quite a bit harder than the Wasdale – it was certainly longer. Fortunately the weather was great – if a bit too warm as the day wore on…
The Club did excellently on the prize front in all three courses. The Women won 1st Team – Kirsty B-J(3rd) ,Nicky Spinks(6th) ,Joanne Armistead(20th). Men won 1st Team for first time in the Trial’s history I think – Jon Morgan (4th) ,John Hunt(5th), Jon Coe(8th). Matt, Si Patton and Gavin would have taken 2nd team prize except for a strange ad hoc ruling that we’d had too many prizes! A lot of club members got individual prizes in the various categories.
The Long was won by Steve Birkinshaw (4:54:54), Short by Josh Beech (2:47:35), and Ladies by Helene Whitaker (4:30:18). Splendid free food after and a superb day out. “
Dark Peak Edale 4 Peaks Race. “The weather for the first running of the Edale 4 Peaks Race was pretty good- high cloud base, cooling wind and quite unusually for Edale this Summer, no rain. I expected 10 runners maximum so surprised to have 19 starting. New Dark Peaker Dave Aucott finished first in 1.30.31 just a few seconds ahead of Dave Taylor. First lady was Joan Waller. Post race refreshments were in the Rambler.”
DT – a good effort, Andy, for what is some classic Edale course. The more of these the better, throughout the winter when it’s a quiet weekend, to avoid travelling…
Yorkshireman (Haworth) . An event to slip in when there’s no real fell race locally around. I did the Half, 14/15mile or nearby, all runnable, tracks, lanes, conduits, fell, plenty of dry firm running.
These videos are getting good, this is by Keighley, the organisers.
World Masters – Zagreb. results, for those who know these people, Ben Grant was 11th – V60. Geoff Howard (English V65 Champion) was 5th. First Ladies V45 Team. And 1st V45 for Craig Roberts.
BOFRA Lothersdale (Skipton). Only one mile, similar in idea to a short gritstone burst, flat out effort for a short intense climb. The inimitable commentary from Roger Ingham , MBE – he knows his stuff and enlivens any of these village shows, mentioned that this is the 2nd oldest Fell Race, one year away from Killington Sports – where does the Hallam Chase figure in this?