As a pre-1974 Lancastrian who hasn't yet accepted Cumbria as a concept, it's nice to be able to say that I was at home for this one, in the historic County Palatine of Lancaster. And this race pretty much has it all - past Bleasdale Circle on a soggy field and on through a farmyard to the fell gate. A lung bursting climb up to Paddy's Pole, a blistering fast run down to Parlick Fell and terrifically steep descent into another farmyard. More soggy field.
Conditions weren't bad, all things considered. You couldn't see much in the clag at the top and the mud was as bad as it always is but it wasn't too cold and it wasn't too windy. Disappointed then to be a couple of minutes slower than 10 years ago. Then again, if I'd done a PB I'd have been 4th. So would old Clayton-le-Moors rival Mark Nutter I discovered, as we grumbled at the sticker board over a brew in the hall after the event. That's just what old gits like to do.
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| No view of Fair Snape Fell |
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| Young 'uns getting slower every year |
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