That’s Medium Silent Valley and Yetholm : Long – Peris : Short – Blisco.
Plenty of time to get travel sorted for Ireland…..and get Yetholm entries in….
Ireland Travel:- Matt Hulley’s flights are here – and Greg is now on the same flight, etc – but who can share car hire? Please send through when anything is booked…
Just a prize-giving night and no food this year?
Brough Law, Carshare League 2. results. A long day out, but well worth the visit. Brough Law is in the Cheviots, and put out by the Kielder Blast organiser. This was an excellent AS course, excellent lonely valley venue. It began with a 10metre dash, and spread
out up a wide sharp hill. Then lots of good grassy running, enough ups and
downs, and a shifting grassy finish. About 5 miles, and another hill could
easily have been slipped in, whilst still AS. A much better place to be running than within Kielder forest. Gavin Bland was first home, clearly running well with Edale coming up. Don’t worry, we gave him enough rubbish advice which can stuff Borrowdale’s chances….
We then slipped around to Yetholm to plod around the British Championship course.
excellent course. Cold and wintry, we needed one shelter behind a wall to escape the elements. Not hard
to navigate, though if the clag is down, things could go wrong. But a hard
course, as it should be. A roller coaster first half, once you get up , over the
top and lose lots of height.Four times. A very sapping climb up the last hill to half-way,
somehow sinking into marshy grassy stuff high on a hillside. Then a fast second
half, which goes on and has lots of running, but with a sharp hill near the
end.
We’d met the organiser earlier, and he was waiting for us at the end. No
entry limit, just a closing date. If you want a .gpx file of Willy’s track, drop him an calendar@dpfr.org.uk
Off goes the Carshare League organiser….
Knoll the hard way. There was much debate on the start line about the best route
from the start to Mam Nick. That turned out to be the most straight forward bit.
Driving snow and low cloud made for some interesting navigation. Rich Bradbury
took the scenic route to Brown Knoll – having left his compass behind. Very
pleasant tussock trotting was found on the sweeping decent into Pennine
territory to the west. There was a grim climb into the wind back over into the
head of the Edale valley. Where Lewis got too casual with his map reading and
visited an extra unofficial control before the hard climb up to Lords Seat, it
was all wrapped up with the fun descent back to Odin mine off Mam Tor. Matt
Hulley set off in his traditional late fashion and had very little idea about
where he went. Tim Rippon went for a wander somewhere out on the course and so
enabled some of the slower members to get in a valued head to head victory. He
also has a passion for a very direct line off Mam Tor – the geologist at the
bottom of the face were less passionate about his line through the unstable
debris. A very worth while course. Hopefully the race will see the light of day
(or torches) again. ” – from Lewis…
Grindleford Gallop. – results.
Stan Bradshaw Pendle Round – results,
Ian Roberts –results.
Absent Friends:- “Jon Morgan is out in the Alps for the winter ski mountaineering racing. Here are
a few choice bits: Jon gets a photo of himself in the French
newspapers, and also Es is lurking beside…:Here are his blog postings for his
sponsor RAB: for the technically minded, there are
some interesting bits in the Blog about basic blood & oxygen physiology
which gives some context to the numbers, and what you might view as the
privilege of athletic capability.”