{"id":3218,"date":"2019-01-12T03:25:11","date_gmt":"2019-01-12T03:25:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/?p=3218"},"modified":"2019-02-02T10:19:21","modified_gmt":"2019-02-02T10:19:21","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/3218","title":{"rendered":"Tour de Helvellyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tour de Helvellyn<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday 15 December 2018<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Shortened bad weather course<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>26.8 miles (43.1 km); 6,030 feet (1,838 m) of ascent &#8211; from GPS data<\/p>\n<p>Due to forecast nasty weather and the likelihood of things deteriorating significantly and risking runners being stranded on the wrong side of a mountain range the organiser invoked a bad weather course.  This followed the normal course from Askham passing St Peter&#8217;s Church near Martindale and Patterdale but involved a U-turn before the top of Sticks Pass and a return to the start following the outward route.  The route therefore missed out Swirls car park on the other side of Helvellyn; Birkside Ghyll; Raise Beck and Grisedale Tarn but meant runners got to tuck into the soup and other goodies back at base earlier than planned which as the weather worsened seemed welcome.<\/p>\n<p>As the day progressed the winds grew stronger and the driving rain stung like thousands of tiny needles.<\/p>\n<p>Starters:  208<\/p>\n<p>Finishers:  202<\/p>\n<p>Retired:  6<\/p>\n<p>First Man:  Adam Perry;  M;  3:45:20<\/p>\n<p>First Lady:  14th overall;  Sabrina Verjee;  F;  4:24:18<\/p>\n<p><strong>David Harrison<\/strong>:  25th;  Dark Peak Fell Runners;  MV50;  4:39:06<\/p>\n<p><strong>Clare Oliffe<\/strong>:  33rd;  Dark Peak Fell Runners;  F;  4:46:46<\/p>\n<p><strong>Steven Jones<\/strong>:  137th;  Dark Peak Fell Runners;  MV50;  6:13:34<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tour de Helvellyn Saturday 15 December 2018 Shortened bad weather course 26.8 miles (43.1 km); 6,030 feet (1,838 m) of ascent &#8211; from GPS data Due to forecast nasty weather and the likelihood of things deteriorating significantly and risking runners being stranded on the wrong side of a mountain range [&hellip;]<\/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-3218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultrarunning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218","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=3218"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3218\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}