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Old Counties Tops:- 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.
Burbage Summer Sharpener (1)
Vanessa Chappell

Saturday:-
   Jura:-  Tim Rippon sends:- "Steve Matthews and me are travelling to Jura. We have room for 1 more if anyone interested, please  email  or txt - 07800820380. "
   Hutton Roof - someone may be there?
  
Sunday -
   Helvellyn. Carshare hopes to make it along...
   Saddleworth:-
Monday -
   Bamford Sheepdog trials:-
   Shutlingsloe:-
Tuesday - Hallam Chase:-
Wednesday - Kettleshulme:-

Carshare is away the Thursday, setting off for Yetholm....for which:-
From an earlier Comment, David Lund asks " I've entered Yetholm and hoping to arrange a car share if possible. I live in Doncaster close to the A1. email if you can help."

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.

 Fairfield. English Championship 1. results.
   Foul and horrible driving up, but the delayed start, due to a muddy parking field, let the rain mostly pass through. Clear, cold, but alright really.
For individuals, I'm thinking that Judith was 1st LV45, and Johnny Malley was 3rd MU23
 But - my pathetic adding up has it that the Men won 1st Team . Not up at the right front end, but packing most effectively, which is what it's all about. And not just depending on the counters, but much more depth than last year. Vital. Borrowdale Vets were enormously clear, we may be 2nd, ahead of Calder Valley.
Ladies look likely to be 3rd? behind Calder (18), Ambleside (36) with 52 pts.
And the V50's were far, far distant.
   Next English is Buckden Pike, details etc, pre-entry or EOD. No navigational worries, but a recce to know what it's all about will be useful, mainly to know how much effort to put into the first big hill, (like up the steep side of the Winnats or Mam Tor beside the shale face), then to get your best line for shifting down, and there's the wall to jump near the finish.

Cressbrook Crawl:- results.
Mount Famine:- results.

Jura:-Tim Rippon sends:- "Steve Matthews and me are travelling to Jura. We have room for 1 more if anyone interested, please   email  or txt - 07800820380. "

Wasdale Pre-Entry List

Trunce (3) - results.
Jack Bloor :- results, and the photos  reveal an energetic runner in a brown vest near the front, traditionally seen in yellow. Trying so hard, Carshare wonders whether Tom just coasted round on Saturday?
Mearley Clough - results
Shining Tor:- results.

Turner Landscape Entry details.  no panic, there's no entry limit. A cracking race, justifiable as a Championship event.

Sunday's Trail Run:- was an excellent innovation, apparently plenty of then way down south. You pays £5.00, of which £2.00 is a voucher to spend in the host pub afterwards. The idea. Set off any time between 11am and 12.30pm, and on registering you get a route description to follow round. Even I could follow the instructions and not get lost, a most pleasant mixture of fields, paths, woods, tracks and a bit of road. Just over 6 miles. For any village pub/cafe wanting some business, a very good idea indeed.

Pendle Cloughs. Carshare League 4. results. A most worthy race to have in the Carshare League. As always, very well organised and very good running around parts of Pendle we don't usually visit. Not as crowded as the Tour, which means having to think about finding the way, rather than follow a beaten trail. Cold, but clear and as dry underfoot as Pendle is likely to be.
   Neil Northrop used his skill and navigational ability to come home first. I hesitate to say the same about Joe's navigational ability, who used the time-honoured approach of following a local (Mike Wallis) and then leaving him on those final fields. Good to see Joe, 2nd, clearly running so strongly.
 Well done to all our travellers, hope you enjoyed a good event.

Wot an insult? This well-meaning lady asked me if I ran for Clayton. Could anything be so derogatory? And a Lancashire club at that....(I'm suspecting it wos a put-up job by the nearby Clayton Chairman...)

Next event is Yetholm - recommended as a very good course, another good place to be running.

Coniston:- results.
Chunal:- results.
Red Kite Challenge -
Llangynhafal Loop....results.
Saddleworth Cake Race:- results.
Coiners  - results.
Jame's Thorn:- 
Burbage
Rainow.

"The XX stone is on the Salterbrook track on the top of the Woodhead. The Grin and Bear it goes past it as has some club runs.SK 152 999. It denotes 20 miles to Rotherham but there are no names on the stones"

Too hard? Not one bit, as:-
Tom Brunt rolls in first, with the location and the exact explanation of the two letters.
Russell Beresford also knows it well....
Mike Browell.....
Dave Sykes also...

And a suitable time to ask for any things of interest to go out on Carshare, Mystery Photos, Mystery Trig Points, or anything at all....So what's next?

Three Peaks:-  results.  Looks to be very strong runs from Helen, 3rd and 1st LV40? and Oli - 6th, Tom 10th with John Hunt 17th. This is the Vets prize retained, with Tony Heron the next counter.  And also the Senior Men, Will Boothman being the vital counter.

The Fellsman :- results.   Nicky is up there again, 14th and 1st Lady.
Three Cabins Champagne Challenge:-
Highlander Mountain Marathon  is 26th/27th April, just south of Inverness. Results.  Glen  and Richard have come 8th in the Score Event , but what this involves will need some enlightenment. Apologies if others have been neglected?
 Indeed, as "Also at Highlander doing C class were Ruth Batty and Carl Betts 7th overall and just 8 minutes behind were Lucy Weigand and friend who were also 1st female team. Beautiful day 1 in sun and snow, day 2 usual MM weather. Well worth long but easy drive."

Dark & White Mini MM - from Castleton. Results.
Trunce 2.- results.
Tiger's Todger. results.

Teenager with Altitude:- results. Carshare League Race 4.  Next will be Pendle Cloughs. Saturday 4th May. And it's a right good event, less trodden than the Tour and a visit to hitherto unvisited bits of Pendle. If the clag is down worry not - there are no particular mystery knolls.
Anniversary Waltz:- results.
The Moelwyns -  results.
London marathon - results , but you'll have to wade through for yourself....

Gisborough Moors. results. Very dry up on the moors, even in the traditionally sloshy woods. Road shoes would have done fine. A welcome return from injury for Dan Middlemass, like Joe - resident in them parts. He was driving home when I eventually rolled in. This, 13 miles?, is the longest of the N Y Moors races, worth having done but not really that special. A distinct lack of rough stuff.
Summer Series (2) - Broomhead Bash.
Cakes of Bread.
BOFRA  "Dick Hudson's" - results. From Ilkley tarn, touch the gate on the other side of the moor, and get back. Cyclists line up behind the runners, who immediately set off all over the hillside on secret lines. Once on the level the cyclists squeezed past. Leaving us slower folk to get down as darkness settled in.

#5 Pendle Cloughs, Sat 4th May @ 11am - entry on the day

Next up is Pendle Cloughs.  Carshare concedes ... "yes, totally contrived, but very good running, an excellent trip out" ... and it's my birthday too, so barring accident at the Fellsman, a pass out is guaranteed.

Lots of information on the Barlick FR website here including this route map; and Carshare's route notes, written in his own inimitable style, available here.  The village is likely to be full of bank holiday trippers, so we're asked to carshare and to park, for a small charge, in the village hall car park.

DT (thus interfering with Willy's stuff...) . Those watching in black and white may remember the film of Whistle Down the Wind, set in Downham, where the race starts, and the farm/barn was nearby. The film has regular backdrops of Pendle. The landowner has, I think, insisted on no new contraptions on the village buildings, so no satellite dishes or the like, which means it is regularly used in TV and films. A very scenic little place, with the stream going through.

#6 Yetholm, Sun 2nd June @1pm - online pre-entry ONLY

Then it's the Scottish counter in the British Champs so, given the smallish turnout in Ireland, I'm thinking the club captains may be chivvying the troops for this one.  You must pre-enter here and so far as we can ascertain, there's no limit to the field ... but also not too many DP'ers signed up to date either (entry list here).

Route map and full details here, and Carshare's notes here.  Given the amount of other stuff going on in May and June, I may just leave this one to sharp end, though it did seem a very fine route when we recced it in early March, notwithstanding the snow blizzards.  If you want a gps track to accompany DT's notes, email me.