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Scenery: 8
Atmosphere: 8 - run in conjunction with
Ingleton Gala. Loads of stalls for the kids. Levon came away with a few prizes and two coconuts!
Organisation: 8 - apart from having Dave
Waywell down as 1st
Female Vet 60 everything seemed to go swimmingly. (I wonder if she was
skeletal too?) The organisers gave us discretion on whether we wanted to wear
our bum bags. Results e-mailed to us by 3 o’clock next day. Joanna received a T-shirt for 2nd LV35.
Value: 10 - £3 on day only or £10 if you
wanted a T-shirt.
Beginner Friendly:
10 - straight up and down route. No
navigation worries.
Do it again: Yes, although I think Captain
Barlow, (if re-elected), would like to have some different races for
variety in 
next year’s Championships.
I’d arranged to pick up my son, Levon, from football training at noon
and go round to Steve Littler’s. Linda said she would look after Levon. Lee Barlow rang me at 11am and woke me up – he was asking for a
lift in a roundabout sort of way – in a way that only Lee can. We set off in Linda’s
car. Lee made out he wasn’t sure if
he was going to run or spectate. He proceeded to phone various runners/runners’
wives asking for fell shoes/bum bags etc. The chairman came to the rescue and
lent him his spare pair, which was half a size out. Lee had previously had a drunken bet with
Michaela travelled to Ingleton via Sweatshop, 
about 1:30 till maybe 4pm, (eat your heart out Brian!). She sounded that much like
her, I had to get up close to check………wasn’t the last episode sad when she
died.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EuvLh_ZfRdQ
We seemed to have one of the best turnouts
there and caused quite a stir amongst the established fell running clubs like Clayton. The Eaton and Waywell, (junior),
families were camping over at Dent
and then doing Coniston Fell Race on
the Sunday. Kirsty is 8 months pregnant!
We set off from the gala field onto the
road and one runner went flying straight away, but carried on and finished the
race, and then went straight to Otley
Hospital, (wouldn’t get that in a namby pamby road race!)
…………..I’m sounding like a seasoned Fell Runner now!
On my warm up, I felt knackered after a hard week – two
races and some track work and track races that sap the hell out of your legs. I
ran with Simon Eaton for a while,
but did a lot of walking when I should have been running. Gary Johnson left me and Simon
left me.
The first runner came down on our left – he
was flying and must have had a lead of two minutes. Steve Littler was in the top six running down to our right. I also
saw Dave Waywell, Gary Pendlebury and Lee Barlow all well up there. I gave them a shout, but doubt they
heard me. Must have missed Bogtrotter
and Alex.
I was approaching the summit when Joanna Goorney overtook me. We had to
run round the shelter and trig point and then down a steep grassy hill. Some
walkers were clapping us stood in the mist. Joanna waited for me on the edge………not out of chivalry or out of
concern for an old man, but to see how I was going to negotiate it as if she
had a slight panic. I’d seen runners coming down on their bottom and I thought
this was the safest bet. I could hear Sarah
Sherratt approaching behind. She
seemed to have a nervous laugh. She also left me for dead and looked to be
going great guns. Has Sarah found her niche? Mark Midgley also came past me, but not quite as graceful as Sarah. (He went flying full length
across the path, but soon got up and disappeared into the distance!) I overtook
a couple of runners when the path became a bit safer in an effort to salvage
some pride!
Only seemed to finish seconds in front of Dempsey! – More or less straight away, Levon wanted to play football! I
watched the kids doing the sack race and egg and spoon race.
We headed off to the Marton Arms at
Hats off to
Writing this is the most energetic thing I
can muster today! But that might be due to the added consequence of going out
with Lee Barlow and Pete Cruse last night. Pete and Julie were planning on carrying the Wesham flag to the ‘Northern
Boys Love Gravy 6 Mile Trail Race’ on Sunday.
1st Lloyd Taggart (
1st Lady: Natalie White (23rd overall) 56:24
(Bingley)
5th Steve Littler 50:39
20th Alex Rowe (2nd V50 by 6 secs) 55:43
44th Lee Barlow 58:13
45th Gary Pendlebury 58:17
48th Peter Waywell 59:03
49th Richard Davies 59:21
80th Dave Waywell 63.31
99th Simon Eaton 65:38
110th Joanna Goorney 67:34
119th Mark Midgley 69:05
121st Sarah Sherratt 69:11
130th Martin Bates 70:26
136th Michaela Dempsey 70:58
167th Nigel Shepherd 75:39
186th Kath Hoyer 86:15
189th Helen Jolly 92:44
Remaining races:
Sun Aug 12:
Worsthorne Moore – 7m/900’
Sat Aug 25:
Chipping – 8m/2600’
Sat Sep 29:
Thieveley Pike– 4.25m/1300’
Written by: Martin
Bates
Submitted: 23rd
July 2007
Edited by: Brenda J
Earnshaw WRR Editor