British Fell Relays. 3rd
Always one of the highlights of the year and Ambleside didn't dissapoint. New club, more brown but same game and hoping for a good result.
Ambleside also managed to make the perfect leg for me on 4 with the route change adding in a ridiculous descent.
Some solid runs by Peter, Peter and Waldie set us up maybe mid teens but as always hoping leg 3 was the big one and Murray and Scott had a pretty good race and sent me out in tied 4th with DP (I enjoyed my moving club made no difference on my finish position). 2:40 down on Haries and 5 down on Ambleside.
After about 4min I started dropping DP. Then struggled on the steep rough climb but ground it out okay. It was claggy so was just desperately trying to spot the next flag. A bit demoralising going up the hill and could see maybe a minute or more ahead at times and nobody on my leg in sight. Once on top I tried to push but I just couldn't follow the flags (I thought Ambleside didn't like following a breadcrumb trail :) ). They seemed to keep going on and off the path so was pretty hesitant and got my map out at one point to check I hadn't missed the turn off.
Then the fun began and a contouring descent to Stone Arthur and finally see someone about 100m ahead. Plummeted off the hill at a scary pace, flying past Gregor and was just fully committed. Unfortunately this was unsustainable and hitting the lower down fields my legs just capitulated and I stumbled in falling over on the run in. Ambleside were 30s ahead in the end with Pudsey another few minutes.
Obviously Jacob smashed me by a minute and a half but that was to be expected as he is just on a different level up a hill at the moment. Thankfully due to some major Keswick errors it wasn't a head to head race. Was hoping Ted Mason/Elk would be doing 4 for a showdown. Hopefully be throwing myself off some more hills next year.
Overall results
http://www.sportident.co.uk/results/2018/BritishFe...
Leg splits
http://www.sportident.co.uk/results/2018/BritishFe...