In common with my in-laws, I was grateful not to be in the Lake District this weekend at the Original Mountain Marathon. As featured all over the BBC news, the event was a bit of a wash out (to put it mildly). In my case, I was asked to run the long score a couple of months back when someone’s partner looked like they might have to drop out. Given that they would have been looking to win, I dread to think how little kit I might have been carrying in a bid to keep up! Instead, I enjoyed a dry Saturday with my family back in Hertfordshire.
If you want to read a less sensationalist report of the weekend’s events than those provided by the mainstream media then I’d recommend those on SleepMonsters and planetFear.
Dave,
I have the opposite reaction, personally I am more annoyed about not having entered given that it was called off than I would have been had it gone ahead with no problems. At least if I had entered I would have had something to talk about for days.
cheers,
Neil
Ah, but this way I get to talk about it without actually having driven to the Lakes, got soaked and dragged the car back out of a bog!
The organisers obviously agree with you Neil. Apparently they are having the souvenir T-shirts overprinted with ‘YOU HAD TO BE THERE…’! Also interesting that they anticipate are larger than usual entry for next year.
I’m with Neil on this one as well. The coverage on the 10 o clock news made it look like a great atmosphere. Having your car trashed by the flood water may have been a bit annoying though, but that only happened to a few people.
And those cars were parked where they were told not to…