{"id":3561,"date":"2022-09-18T18:52:28","date_gmt":"2022-09-18T18:52:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/?p=3561"},"modified":"2022-09-18T18:52:28","modified_gmt":"2022-09-18T18:52:28","slug":"","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/3561","title":{"rendered":"Tour de Helvellyn"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Tour de Helvellyn<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Saturday 18 December 2021<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>38 miles (61.1 km); 7,874 feet (2,400 m) of ascent<\/p>\n<p>Starting in Askham the route generally follows footpaths and bridleways to St Peter&#8217;s Church near Martindale; Boredale (Boardale on the British Mountain Map); Patterdale; Sticks Pass; Stannah Beck; Swirls car park; Birkside Ghyll; Raise Beck; Grisedale Tarn; Patterdale again and back to Askham.<\/p>\n<p>A crisp frosty day with mist in the valleys and excellent visibility from the tops.  The views were magnificent and it was a great day to be out in hills.  With clear skies I could feel the warmth of the sun in the afternoon although the temperatures dropped when the sun went down.<\/p>\n<p>Starters:  175<\/p>\n<p>Finishers:  161<\/p>\n<p>Retired:  14<\/p>\n<p>First Man:  Rory Harris;  6:08:50<\/p>\n<p>First Lady:  Fiona Pascall;  6th overall;  6:29:31<\/p>\n<p>Kirsty Hewitson:  29th;  DPFR;  7:30:43<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Holt:  42nd;  DPFR;  7:57:11<\/p>\n<p>John Vernon:  149th;  DPFR;  11:57:39<\/p>\n<p>Steven Jones:  159th;  DPFR;  12:18:34<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tour de Helvellyn Saturday 18 December 2021 38 miles (61.1 km); 7,874 feet (2,400 m) of ascent Starting in Askham the route generally follows footpaths and bridleways to St Peter&#8217;s Church near Martindale; Boredale (Boardale on the British Mountain Map); Patterdale; Sticks Pass; Stannah Beck; Swirls car park; Birkside Ghyll; [&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-3561","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ultrarunning"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3561","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=3561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3561\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dpfr.org.uk\/wp_dpfr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}