The Fellsman<\/b><\/p>\n
Saturday 16 April 2016<\/b><\/p>\n
61 miles; 11,000′<\/p>\n
Weather : mild and good (patches of snow remaining in places) but very cold winds and colder later with some retiring due to hypothermia and frost-nip. The bogs froze with a crust of ice on top at night with the ice not being strong enough to support a runner leading to feet and legs plunging into icy waters.<\/p>\n
Conditions : even boggier and wetter than usual!<\/p>\n
Starters: 312<\/p>\n
Finishers: 217<\/p>\n
Retired: 94<\/p>\n
Disqualified: 1 (lost tally)<\/p>\n
Fastest Man: Konrad Rawlik 11:31<\/p>\n
Fastest Woman: Karen Nash 15:45<\/p>\n
Laurence Piercy: Joint 8th 13:18 (Lawrence?) DPFR<\/p>\n
Steven Jones: 113th 19:41 DPFR<\/p>\n
Neil Drake: Joint 168th 22:27 DPFR<\/p>\n
John Vernon: 183rd 23:17 DPFR<\/p>\n
At the awards and presentations the next morning (with some runners\/walkers still out and yet to finish) someone received an award for their 40th Fellsman (36 successful completions) which gives a hint of how addictive The Fellsman is. It is perhaps roughly equivalent to two laps of the Three Peaks Fell Race followed by a Warts Run in terms of distance, elevation and the terrain and bogs. No wonder people keep coming back year after year.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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