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BG Weekend.

Saturday:- Many races all over, but locally...
   James Blakely:-

Sunday :-
   Kinder Trog:-
   Windy Gyle:- well may you ponder where this is. Carshare, enhanced by the trip to Brough Law, will be nearby in the Cheviots, hoping for similar good running, and keeping well away from Kielder Forest.
Monday - Trunce 5.
Tuesday - Riber Run.
Wednesday - Hope.
Friday - Tideswell.

Saturday - Buttermere Horseshoe. I'm thinking this is a most welcome  re-instatement of a long, long Lakeland outing.

Many congratulations to everyone involved in the most impressive Billy Bland Challenge record!

Lakeland Classics Positions - after two races, but a long, long way to go just yet...
Hawkswick Dash - BOFRA - results.

Buckden Pike.
Ladies Results. Looks to me like 2nd Senior Team, after Ambleside, and 1st LV40 Team.
Men's Results.  And also 1st Senior Men : V40, likely 2nd behind Borrowdale, and V50's - likely 3rd, behind Borrowdale and Ellenborough.

A very good, well organised race. The weather was dry and clear, much better than down the valley at Otley where the Carnival was ruined by a downpour. Some will remember that when it was last Championship, there was "confusion" about staying on the flags around the lead mine. All this had been effectively sorted out, and also marshals at the two top turns to avoid cutting the corner. Some mad hurtle down that last slippy steep hillside indeed.
Photos -  once again Dave and Eileen Woodhead providing some excellent service to the rank and file of fellrunning,
    Judith was 3rd overall, and leading Vet, Helen 3rd LV40. Lloyd was 4th,  2nd V40, but also many brown vests and new faces. Big thanks to all for representing.
First Lady was Victoria Wilkinson, and Simon Bailey for the Men.
   The Yorksire Team Championships seems to be a notable double!
Next is Wasdale. Are we hoping for 110% clag down? And don't forget to put the Turner Landscape entry in the post....

Cwm Pennant Horseshoe - 17miles, 5500ft - a right classic in the making??? ....results.
Great Lakes Run -
Sutton Pinnacles - is a good event, just past Keighley. Some tired legs around, especially those who had run Cononley after Buckden, and then Hawkswick before this. Not hard, plenty of scenic running.
 
Monday - Summer Series (5). Birchin Surprise.
Tuesday - Calton - another trip to way down South...
Wednesday - Crookstone Crashout.
Thursday - Blackamoor.

Senior Men: Lloyd - 4th.
MV40:- Lloyd - 2nd.
MV50:- Keith - 9th=.
MV60:- DT - 2nd (milk it whilst it looks good, I regret to say...)

Senior Ladies:- Judith - 2nd=.
LV40:- Judith - 1st.

Teams.
Senior Men:- 4th, (  4th at Yetholm)
MV40:- 3rd (  3rd at Yetholm)
MV50:-  3rd(  4th at Yetholm)
Ladies Teams - yet to score.

Full listings.

Ennerdale - results. the second of the Lakeland Classics...and another Team(s) 1st. Plenty to read in Willy's Comment.
Bosley Fete - results.
Edale Country Fair:- results.
BOFRA Kettlewell - results. Ambleside Ladies were gearing up for next week's race, with also a look around Buckden. Clearly getting their act together. Hazel was 1st Lady, visiting Mike was 1st MV40. You don't hang around on these BOFRA races. This was a shortened version of Leg 1 of the Relays : a dash on the road over the bridge, hammer up the hill, and hammer even harder back down again. A worried Carshare fears that Health and Safety has, of all things, come to the notice of BOFRA organisers, as the usual river crossing wasn't included at the finish. Wotever next?
Summer Series (4) - from Winscar Res.
Wormstones:-
Cautley Horseshoe:-  results
Grindleford:-

Red Kite Weekend:- this was ages back, sometime in may, over in Mid-Wales. There are two attractive looking races, definitely attractive enough to lure Dicky into those faraway lands...results.

Kings Tree Bus. The timetable is always worth keeping in mind, as are the many other Sunday bus/train linear routes

Yetholm - British Championship and Carshare League. Results.
A most worthy course, worth looking out for if you can also fiddle a few days holiday around the Borders. Dry, warm, plenty of grassy hills and enough to get stuck into hard. A lot low in numbers, but hopefully that means we go full teams out at Buckden in a fortnight. A look at the Carshare League Table, (within Results - Leagues) somehow shows that Willy still leads, possibly as he does the calculations? from Greg, hot in pursuit....
Notably, Judith was 3rd, and 1st LV40, Lloyd - 9th and 3rd MV40, and hopefully us MV50 team have accumulated some better points.
 (It grieves me to say so, but Pennine are likely to have stuffed us...)
Next Carshare League is Coniston Country Fair, Sunday 21st July....

Borrowdale Entries     are now available.

Blisco Dash - English and British. Now has a limit of 500. Entry List. Best get sorted out fast if you're intending going...

Duddon Long:-  "The old boys kicked off the Lakeland classics with 1^st Team, 1^st Vets Team. Normally I’d celebrate Tom being 2^nd except he needs a good talking to he was in the lead coming off Caw ! Come Tom, anyone can be 2^nd " (not my words, Tom!!)
  "Joe had recci’d his line the night before and wasn’t going off on a wander away from the flagged route, he knew what he was doing and took 6^th -  clearly Joe is back in full enigmatic glory."
Results - just have a fiddle with those things at the bottom of the Excel sheet....
Duddon Short:- results (with some fiddling...)
Pen-y-Ghent:- results.
Wharfedale Off-road marathon:- results.
Peat Pits Wood (3):- results

Artistic Running. This gives details of " an exhibition of paintings by Steffie Richards on the subject of what it feels like to run long distances. 1st June to 31 Aug."

Trunce 4:- results.
DPFR Alport:-
Boar's Head:-
Calver:- results.
Otley Chevin:- The usual lung buster up the Chevin, get up as best you can, along the top, and go for broke coming back down again....
Denis Stitt:- results.
Tansley:- results.
Castleton:- results

Farming Today:- Carshare's DEFRA correspondent was listening to this, all about Herdwick sheep on Gavin Bland's farm, most definitely worth trying to catch up with, and most likely the rest of the week also.

Jura:-  Steve Matthews has kindly sent these provisional results.

Helvellyn. A real classic course. results. The venue moved from Bram Crag Farm as the farmer turned the barn into accommodation. The new route has a much longer climb up Clough Head, and actually visits Great Dodd, both out and back. I'm pleased to report that the totally excellent cakes and sandwiches are as good as ever - the best refreshments going? (or is it Hayfield?) . Tightly organised with compulsory kit-check, which seems to be the basic need under safety reviewing. Hot at times, though a bit cold on Helvellyn top. Carl Bell looked to be running with ease as he hurried past on his return leg, and won by a country distance. Joe seems to have a liking for these long thigs, or maybe he just likes being in the prizes.

Saddleworth:- results. , won by some visiting raider from Keswick....
Hutton Roof -  results.
Bamford Sheepdog trials:- results.
Shutlingsloe:- results.

Tuesday - Hallam Chase:-
Wednesday - Kettleshulme:-

Guardian Photos:- "The Guardian seem to be having something of a fleeting romance with running at the moment, what with the running blog and now this set of photos of mountain running: "

Old Counties Tops:- Results are on DPFR results, with splits, etc. Lewis helps out with:- "The Old Counties Tops was a tough one. The weather was foul from the outset (although I believe it brightened late on). I succumbed to a cold I'd nearly noticed earlier in the week :  by 20km in, at the top of the Wythburn valley / bog, it was clear I had nothing to give. We'd lost 1/2 hour in the previous couple of miles. So we took an hour trotting back down in a round about way via the start of the Langdale route. It was disappointing, but when the tank is empty, there is nothing to be done. I'm currently taking stock of my distance plans for the rest of the year and thinking about less long racing and a bit more just getting out."

Tony Heron "teamed up with Jon Ascroft for this. Obviously, lots of rain on the day - Wythburn was especially miserable - but running conditions weren't all that bad and even brightened up enough in the last 90 minutes to shed our soaking waterproofs. The race started gently enough as we settled into the front bunch of half a dozen teams behind eventual race winners Ben Abdlenoor and Paul Tierney. We made it up to third by the first road crossing after picking good racing lines up and down Helvellyn - a position we held onto all the way to Cockley Beck when we gave way to a couple of energetic youngsters after stopping for egg sandwiches and a cup of tea. After suffering a bit on the brutal climb up Grey Friar, we found the energy to run strongly for the last hour or so to claim fourth spot and the V40 trophy in a time of 7.51 hrs - about 90 seconds behind third or the time it takes to eat an egg sandwich and drink a cup of tea. Great to catch up with Paul Fauset and Roy Gibson in the ODG on Saturday night, who sounded like they enjoyed their day in the rain along with the usual Dark Peak suspects scattered up and down the field."

Paddy Buckley Record - huge congraulations to Nicky, and everyone involved!

Buckden Pike. I had a plod around the course today. Route notes are with Rob and Helen, as Team Captains, but if you can't wait, please send through. A good classic course, grassy, but not flat...

Simon's Seat. AS. (Wharfedale). It's some long, long time since I've praised an event as strongly as this. The venue was the Craven Arms, Appletreewick, a most impressive pub indeed if ever you're that way. A tiddly road dash, then farmer's permitted fields to the river, and a very strong climb up to Simon's Seat. Touch the trig on top of its rocky outcrop and hammer back down. Before crossing the finish your pre-ordered beer has to be drunk, (of which mine would have been amongst the slowest going.) No huge field, everyone stayed for the abundant prizes, free soup and rolls, which literally were "thrown" in. Completely marvellous atmosphere in every way.

Settle Hills - Inter Counties Championship. results.
Men -Yorksire 1st : North Wales 2nd : Lancashire 3rd.
Ladies - Yorksire -1st : Cumbria - 2nd : Greater Manchester - 3rd.
Apologies if you're not included in DPFR Results, it can easily be put right....

BOFRA Sedbergh Gala - results.
Cader Idris:- results.

Team Positions after Fairfield.  Most humble apologies from Carshare to our Ladies, as I've not praised enough (or not even realised) our Ladies V40 Team, who took 1st place.
Senior Ladies - 3rd.
LV40 - 1st.
Senior Men - 1st.
MV40 - 2nd.
MV50 - 7th ..(Oh Dear!)

Blisco Dash - British and English. Entry List. 

Summer Series (3) - Way Out West.
Masson Hill:- results.
Totley Moor:- results.
Latterbarrow Loop - results.
Burbage Summer Sharpener (1)
Vanessa Chappell

The pre-entry list suggests were going with quality rather than quantity again for the second British Champs counter ... but you've got until Wednesday 29th May to enter if you still want to race - note *no entry on the day* - and David Lund's still after a lift (see week 25/6 May below). 

For maps and route notes see previous post.  DT's that keen to knock me off my perch at the top of the Carshare League that he's going up several days in advance to acclimatise in a Borders B&B, but my money's on the evergreen Mr Rimmer for top spot come Sunday afternoon.  As for the team prize, I'll be happy to receive bids after the event specifying engine size and car occupants.

Happy running - it's a fine course.

This, apparently, was noticed in the Clachaig one night, Glencoe, part of "Open mike night at the bar".
Suggestions most welcome as to wot I might have been singing? And only 5th, but maybe Eurovision beckons?

Whilst reading "The Buteman", as Carshare most regularly does, I noticed this.
"A trip of a Caledonian MacBrayne ferry from Wemyss Bay to Rothesay on Monday took an unexpected twist, after the captain received a mayday call about a yacht in trouble.The crew of MV Bute, on its 12 noon sailing, altered course to assist the troubled vessel, aptly named ‘Storm’, after it had capsized, with two people left clinging on to its hull.