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Gill Gets Greedy for Gottles of Geer!

Not content with winning her age group bottles of beer at Pen y Fan on Saturday, Stottie returned to the Beacons today and this time won two bottles of wine (she thinks she won just the one prize and asked me to collect it when she left early to fulfill a social engagement, but she also won a bottle for being a member of the winning team. I’m hoping she doesn’t read this as I’m hoping to guzzle one of the bottles to comfort me for a rubbish run).

I haven’t seen the results nor spoken to Mr Stott, nor Mr & Mrs Ashton so I can’t comment on their performance, but I shared a car with Matthew L who reckoned he had a good run, being 8th at the summit and finishing a creditable 13th.

I do know that Colin P wasn’t content with a mere 10 miles and decided to add another 4 to make it worthwhile, by improving upon the organiser’s set route and including a premature recce of the Brecon Beacons race course!

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3 Responses to “Gill Gets Greedy for Gottles of Geer!”

  1. Ivan says:
    20/07/2009 at 08:26 am

    So which race was this??

  2. vanessa says:
    20/07/2009 at 12:40 pm

    Fan Y Big. M managed to lose 5 places coming off the top due to a misunderstanding re the exact position of the summit marshal (I think he thought he would be somewhere else, although I’m not sure why he though the summit marshal wouldn’t be on the summit - no doubt he could elaborate on this at length). Hence he had to go back on himself, lose 2 minutes, therefore the 13th place instead of 8th. He enjoyed it though.

  3. Matthew says:
    21/07/2009 at 11:17 am

    For the record, I ran a path which skirts just below the summit but saw no-one on the top (it was misty & i have to admit i didn’t look very hard), ran on and then realised i hadn’t gone to the top. I turned round & ran to the top (much to the confusion of runners behind me), only to discover there was no summit marshal. Set off on the course again, only to find the marsal a little bit further on along the course (but NOT on the summit). The whole process cost me several minutes and more than 10 places. I managed to regain some of the place, but still lost five which was a shame as i had a very good run (running all the way up fan y big) and was on for a top 10 finish & hence a mention in “The Fellrunner”.
    Still, it could have been worse, a well known lady fell runner who was just ahead of me at the summit ended up in the wrong valley & had to get a lift back by minibus !
    Despite (or perhaps because of) all this I would reccomend this race, 10 miles, up the hill, along the summit ridge and back down. None of it is too steep, and until Sunday I would have said no difficult navigation !

    matthew

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