http://live.sportident.co.uk/home/multistage/multi...5th out of the total 38 starters.
Just maintained my always-top-5-in-a-MM statistic. Only 5 mins off 4th... but literally hours behind 3rd - so not troubling the podium.
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Hard climb to start with and legs wrecked from the off as yesterday, but more used to it now. Good route up to Great Gable although some said Green Gable first was better as it avoided the scree slope. Descent off Great Gable was Ricky and horrible. Then long nice run around KirkFell and up and over Pillar, good contouring round Scoat to Haycock. Rocky trying to get off the top but became good terrain for the first part down to the valley so cut the corner before it came heather.
Oversimplified the forest as was only expecting one river and so a bit confused about where I was, didn't stop for long enough to work it out; actually a good route (although involved getting quite wet) but implemented slowly die to lack of confidence.
Last hard climb up to Starling Dodd and then tricky descent from Great Borne before a soul destroying run to the finish. 10th, although it was close today (only 7 mins behind 6th).slipped to 5th overall.
A really hard three days, made harder by the heat but would have been even more grim in the rain because the rocks would've been so much slower, I'd have been out for twice the time. Only just made the very stringent cut off time today.
Food worked well although need 2:1 shot bloks to energy bars rather than 1:1.
Expedition food - pasta ones good, rice ones not so much.