I travelled to Braithwaite today with severe concern.
After the fallout from the Icelandic volcano and reading the headline
in The Sun about the dust being
poisonous, I was very worried. However, after seeing a healthy sun-tanned
Phil Green, who looked in good health, there was nowt to worry about.
The NFR roll-call was Chris Sanderson, Phil Green, Dexter, Paul
Hainsworth, Chris Rowe, Billy Fraser, Peter Reed, Chris
Winter & me.
Please forgive me if I
missed anyone out.
How this race has had 2 years of lovely sunshine I will never know.
Perfect weather for the mountains. Grisedale Pike was a long slog,
Eel Crag was dodgy
with loose slate and stone. But the run back was fast with very little
path erosion after the bad weather.
Dexter found some snow to run through on the top of Eel Crag which
made him happy and had a good battle with our Chris, with Dexter
coming out on top.
Our Chris did much better than last year and did not collapse at
the finish. Peter took 4 mins off his time from last year. Chris
Winter enjoyed his first Lakeland fell race and looked good at the
finish. Paul looked immaculate at the finish as though he had never
raced. I think it was Chris's first race in NFR colours, but I may
be wrong. Billy had a strong race as usual, he appears to
get to a lot of races up and down the UK.
Some poor fell runner ended up in hospital after a nasty fall. I have no name, but I hope he is okay.
As usual Mike Robinson did a great job as organiser and had a pretty good race as well. Jebby won, but a young fella from Keswick was only seconds behind. Forgot his name, but I believe we will all know his name in the future.
more photos from Phil's mum
Phil Sanderson
