After a cold friday night, runners are treated to a cloud inversion from the campsite as the cloud settled low into the valley covering Sedbergh. If you turned around the fells were basked in sunshine. It was 7.30am and it was already getting hot. Day 1 was going to be a very long 7 hours.
So what to do the day after a hard AL fell race? Well in our wisdom Andy and I sat in a pub in Sedbergh planning the next couple of days. We decided to have a go at a traverse of all 31 hills in the Howgills that are above 1500ft. This was first done by Alan Evans of Kendal and Hugh Symonds holds the record for this at 4 hours 49 minutes. We knew we would be no-where near that time and would just be happy to finish.
I had been looking forward to racing this route for a while. One of our club championship races and one that I needed to qualify as I had not ran any of the long races yet. So I needed a good result to get me up in the rankings. I was figuring 3 hours would be a good goal to go for and wrote some split times down from last time sportident was used. I was all set to race!
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