Saturday saw the weather return to standard Lakeland fare after several lovely sunny days, of course it was bound to be wet & cold for the Askham Fell race.
The race started in the village with a reasonable climb up the road onto to Askham Fell, from here it was a fast paced gallop over rolling hillside, me going a completely different way to everyone else, but eventually rejoining the crowd for a long fast downhill to checkpoint one. At this point all was going well, no disasters, nice easy running, of course it wasn't going to last. Left turn at CP1 brings a near vertical climb to get to the top of Arthurs Pike. Now those of you familiar with this bit of the Lakes probably know Arthurs Pike as the easy start of what becomes High Street if heading south, to be confronted by this climb was not really something you'd expect but hey, that's fell running. Apparently.
So a relatively short flog uphill, into the weather, brought us to CP2 and a long, long downhill with a short uphill then loads more down led to the finish. Although last out of the the Eden Runners (pipped in the last half mile) I was pleased to have finished at half way through the field. Exactly half way as it happens.
So what next? Well it's the Anniversary Waltz next Saturday, another new one for me. Hundreds of people apparently, wonder if I can manage half way in that one. Watch this blog!
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