A fantastic weekend in the lakes. Very tough courses for everyone I think and quite a few retirals in the longer classes.
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\nDay 1 was tough with alot of steep rocky climbs including scafell pike (!) but despite warm weather there was a bit of cloud yesterday and a breeze so it kept the midges at bay. The overnight camp was in Borrowdale valley with an outdoor bar for beer, crips and choc so we were very spoilt.
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\nThe 2nd day looked slightly easier on first inspection but it soon became clear that with only 2km less and nearly as much climb, coupled with a very hot day and strong sunshine, it was pretty much just as tough. <\/p>\n
Dark Peakers did well with Debs and I 3rd on Scafell, Phil and Sally Ward 3rd on Bowfell, Richard and David Hakes 6th? on Scafell and Rick Ansell was 4th? on Klets.
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\nRoy seemed to have enjoyed himself too-sorry Roy not sure where you finished but liked the beer can that doubled as a stove! Roger and Duncan Woods nearly finished the Scafell class but suffered in the heat and made a wise decision to bail on the 2nd day when you had the choice of turning right from number 6 up a long hot valley or left down to the finish! Janet and Polly also ran well on day 1 and were leading the women and 6th overall overnight but missed the last checkpoint today (as did quite a few people) and ended up 2nd by a few seconds.<\/p>\n
Anyway everyone seemed to enjoy themselves I think and it was a great event-hopefully they dont get much harder than that! Karen<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A fantastic weekend in the lakes. Very tough courses for everyone I think and quite a few retirals in the longer classes. Day 1 was tough with alot of steep rocky climbs including scafell pike (!) but despite warm weather there was a bit of cloud yesterday and a breeze […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":73,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/73"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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