Middle Pack

The view from the middle of the pack

Wow is it that time already? Well not quite yet but my mind is starting to wander to the winter season racing and Open Adventure and their Open 5 series could feature heavily over the bleak cold months.

There has been a bit of a shake up this year with all the Open 5 races being a lot closer to each other without the gap for summer of previous series. This makes more sense than having the break for summer and also gives people motivation to get out and about when it is dark, wet and cold outside. They are now going to be the 1st weekend of the month apart from a break in January whilst you recover from all the festivities.

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The first in the Dark and White Mini mountain marathons and I nearly missed it! I was shocked to see on the website on Saturday morning that entries had closed! The first time I had seen this, despite doing a fair few of their races. Good for the Dark and White crew, bad for me!

I did manage to scrounge and scam entry as some people were unable to attend so my favorite race was back on! Arriving in Castleton at 8.30am and the event area was already buzzing. There was a lot of hill fog shrouding the area and this I thought would play into my hands brilliantly (being slow but a decent navigator). So after looking at the event map and registering I was off. I did my customary glance at the map and set off in search of a nearby checkpoint.

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I saw on Grough that the Edale Mountain Rescue are looking for helpers for the Nine Edges Endurance Event so I thought I would help spread the word.

The Event is on Saturday 27th September and any help, be it a couple of hours or the whole day would be appreciated.

Ring Dave Coss on 07786 852850 if you can help out.

This years OMM is looking to be a closely contested stormer of a competition. Many top names fighting it out for the top prize of Elite category winner. Here we look at a few of those teams who are in it to win it.

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The Rab Mountain Marathon, now in its second year has revealed its location for 2008 is Back O’ Skiddaw and Blencathra. Starting from the village hamlet of Caldbeck and taking us on a tour of some rarely visited fells. in the North of the Lake District.

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