Long Tour of Bradwell – <\/b>Saturday 6 August 2016<\/b><\/p>\n
32.7 miles (52.6 km); 7,218 feet (2,200 m) of ascent<\/p>\n
Starters: 66; Finishers: 64; Retired: 2<\/p>\n
Fastest Man : Ken SutorCheshire Hash Harriers 5:21:22<\/p>\n
Fastest Woman :13th overall Lisa Trollope Unattached 6:50:57<\/p>\n
Gregory Crowley : 8th 6:30:50 DPFR<\/p>\n
Simon White : 40th 8:21:04 DPFR<\/p>\n
Steven Jones : 45th 8:40:19 DPFR<\/p>\n
Jim Paxman : 52nd 8:53:54 DPFR<\/p>\n
Weather : A hot dry day and quite sunny. Dry underfoot.<\/p>\n
Peaks SkyRace – <\/b>Sunday 7 August 2016<\/b><\/p>\n 29.7 miles (47.8 km); 6,560 feet (2,000 metres) of ascent<\/p>\n Weather: A hot dry day and quite sunny. Dry underfoot.<\/p>\n While trying to sprint as fast as I could on the outskirts of Buxton about a mile into the race I fell heavily on tarmac.My water bottle dug into the lower ribs (broken ribs?) and various cuts and bruises.My target to finish in under seven hours transformed into a battle to finish.It is hard to run properly when you can’t breathe and I was reduced to a brisk walk and jog while limping along.Eventually I was timed out at the Cat and Fiddle pub (the final checkpoint) where I was about 17 minutes behind the cut-off.Even so I was pleased that I had carried on and it was much better than to have retired earlier on and it was still a fun event.The next evening (Monday) I went to the Leicester Royal Infirmary to be checked out and I was examined but not X-rayed.The medic thought that the ribs were not broken but the muscles were badly bruised and it could take up to eight weeks before I was back to normal and my toe was probably not broken.The chances of resting are pretty remote since there will be a busy schedule in September with some interesting ultras taking place.<\/p>\n Starters:147; Finishers:136<\/p>\n Fastest Man : Ben Hulkins Ronhill Cambuslang Harriers 4:36:12<\/p>\n Fastest Woman : 3rd overall Sarah Ridgway Unattached 4:56:39<\/p>\n John Brierley : 95th 7:23:44 DPFR<\/p>\n Steven Jones:DNF (timed out at the final checkpoint)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Long Tour of Bradwell – Saturday 6 August 2016 32.7 miles (52.6 km); 7,218 feet (2,200 m) of ascent Starters: 66; Finishers: 64; Retired: 2 Fastest Man : Ken SutorCheshire Hash Harriers 5:21:22 Fastest Woman :13th overall Lisa Trollope Unattached 6:50:57 Gregory Crowley : 8th 6:30:50 DPFR Simon White : […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":772,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_themeisle_gutenberg_block_has_review":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[157],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2973","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultrarunning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973","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\/772"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2973"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2973\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2973"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2973"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2973"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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