This was a lovely run ! A wonderfully organised LDWA event near Barnsley, with clear directions, tape on some of more confusing sections, some mud, lots of fields to cross with crops often left uncut, hills to climb, food in the small tents which formed the checkpoints (including rice pudding, jam sandwiches, cake, biscuits and pasta). Pie and peas at the end. Similar to Swaledale in a lot of ways, but the hills here were more gentle. A very friendly atmosphere, so overall it doesn't get much better !
It was also Clare's first race over the marathon distance and she did great ! She did give me quite a look when I failed to read the excellent race directions and took us about a quarter of a mile down a hill, which we then had to climb up again. This was about mile 24 and we had been out in the sun for more than six hours at that point so we were both getting a bit tired.
The route took us by all sorts of beautiful houses (including Wentworth Woodhouse where I had my first teaching job), churches and monuments, crags with fantastic views and gentle ascents and descents thorough woods.
There were also 15m and 20m alternative routes to the 27m one that we did and I would certainly highly recommend this event.
Results - I don't think there will be any official results:
Clare ven den Bos 6hr 49min 16sec
Dave Robson 6hr 49min 16sec
Dave Robson 6hr 49min 16sec
